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SUBJECTS
Accattone
New 4K Digital Restoration
Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini, Paola Guidi,
Pasolini’s 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 Pasolini’s unsentimental approach to the cruelty and craftiness of poverty’s children makes Federico Fellini’s 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 Accattone—a street nickname meaning “pimp” or “scrounger”—Pasolini introduces 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.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Sergio Citti
Cinematographer
- Tonino Delli Colli
Language
- Italian
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- B&W
- DCP
- 117 mins
Source
- Cinecittà
Permission
- Janus Films
CINEFILES
CineFiles is an online database of BAMPFA's extensive collection of documentation covering world cinema, past and present.
View Accattone documents
Accattone (review), Reader (Chicago, Ill.), Dave Kehr, 2004
Accattone (program note), Cinematheque Ontario/a division of Toronto International Film Festival Group, 2001
Pier Paolo Pasolini: the eyes of a poet (booklet), UCLA Film & Television Archive, 1991
Pier Paolo Pasolini (program note), Art Gallery of Ontario, James Quandt, 1990
Accattone (program note), Pacific Film Archive Calendar, 1984
Theater program - Accattone (program note), Pacific Film Archive Calendar, 1980
Pier Paolo Pasolini -- excerpt (book excerpt), British Film Institute, Paul Willemen, 1977
Pier Paolo Pasolini (booklet), Filmoteca Nacional de España, Marc Gervais, 1976
Accattone (article), Audio Brandon Films, 1968
Films (review), Village Voice, Andrew Sarris, 1968
Displaying 10 of 18 publicly available documents.