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Accattone

Accattone

1961, Movie, 1h 57min

Poet and painter turned filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini courted controversy with his very first feature by using Catholic iconography and liturgical music to render a plaintive, brutally beautiful portrait of a shiftless Roman pimp and thief (then-nonprofessional Franco Citti, in a revelatory performance) whose life of petty crime turns increasingly desperate when the woman who supports him is imprisoned. Melding a hardscrabble neorealist milieu with classical influences, Pasolini offers a vision of underclass struggle as a kind of modern sainthood.

Country: Italy

Director:

Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Reviews

Critic David Parkinson

rated

8

Unsophisticated in a good way but betraying its influences this gritty crime piece is one for true fans of Italian realism.

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