Directed by:
Sergio CittiCinematography:
Mario ManciniComposer:
Francesco De MasiCast:
Laurent Terzieff, Franco Citti, Anita Sanders, Ninetto Davoli, Lamberto Maggiorani, Gianni PulonePlots(1)
A group of men find a woman lying unconscious in the grass and carry her to two brothers, who are living in their childhood home. The three of them duly embark upon a game that explores the many gradations between attraction and repulsion. Based on a screenplay co-written with Pasolini, Citti tells the story of drifters in search of themselves, whose internal unease shapes the ways in which they treat one another; violence is always latent. Citti devotes as much time to the characters as he does to the city and beach landscapes of Ostia, a suburb of Rome. Incest, rape, sexual orientation, patricide – these people’s experiences lies between the rules of Catholicism and the motives of psychoanalysis, and are acted out in a symbiosis of documentary images and theatrical burlesque: cynical and tender, frivolous and dark, full of broken taboos. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Laurent Terzieff
France
Best movies:
Kapò (1959)
Father's Trip (1966)
Germinal (1993)
Franco Citti
Italy
Best movies:
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather: Part III (1990)
Anita Sanders
Sweden
Best movies:
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Ostia (1970)
The 10th Victim (1965)
Ninetto Davoli
Italy
Best movies:
The Gospel According to Matthew (1964)
Ostia (1970)
Teorema (1968)
Lamberto Maggiorani
Italy
Best movies:
Vacation with a Gangster (1954)
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Umberto D. (1952)
Gianni Pulone
Italy
Best movies:
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)
Companeros (1970)
Many Wars Ago (1970)