"Accattone"; Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1961): Days of Glory: Revisiting Italian Neorealism November 27, 2010

Accattone; Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1961): Days of Glory: Revisiting Italian Neorealism Film - Series | November 26 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | Pacific Film Archive Theater
Sponsor: Pacific Film Archive
Days of Glory: Revisiting Italian Neorealism
Accattone
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1961)

Pasolinis first film is set in the milieu of his early novels Ragazzi di Vita (1955) and Una Vita Violenta (1959)the world of prostitutes, pimps, and layabouts living on the outskirts of Rome and existing outside of both bourgeois and proletarian morality. The film shares some qualities with neorealism, but Pasolinis unsentimental approach to the cruelty and craftiness of povertys children makes Fellinis vitelloni look like the princes they are. No, this is a Dantean netherworld, and, like the central character, it is of interest to Pasolini, prized even, precisely for its refusal of redemption. The filmmaker graces it with his understated visual passion, at once lyrical and honest, not incongruously set to Bach. In the character of Accattonea street nickname meaning pimp/scroungerPasolini introduced the first of his remarkable finds, Franco Citti (brother of his friend and collaborator Sergio Citti), an actor whose rough-hewn beauty is like a slap in the face.Judy Bloch

Accattone is repeated on Friday, December 10

Written by Pasolini, assisted by Sergio Citti. Photographed by Tonino Delli Colli. With Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini, Paola Guidi. (120 mins, In Italian with English subtitles, B&W, 35mm, From Cinecitt Luce S.p.A., permission RCTV International)
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