TOCCATTONE
Kind: existential-populist drama
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. With Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini, Paola Guidi, Adriana Asti, Massimo Cacciafeste, Romolo Orazi.
The centenary of Pasolini’s birth was the (commendable) opportunity to bring his films to the cinemaadmirably restored by the Cineteca of Bologna and from that National.
Franco Citti and Franca Pasut in “Accattone” by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
To get away from the embarrassment of choice (each film bears witness to the genius and extraordinary variety of its production), we might as well start from Beggar, dazzling debut that breaks with the rules of traditional language (reason why Fellini, who had to produce it, withdrew) and puts the exuberant spontaneity of the underclass at the center of history.
Vittorio Cataldi known as Accattone lives for the day and is supported by the prostitute Maddalena, until the day she ends up in prison and he has to find another way to live.
Inspired by the “frontal” painting of Masaccio and Piero della Francesca, looking to Dreyer more than to Neorealism, Pasolini tells of the derelict everyday life of the Roman villagesmade up of thefts, stunts, booze and prostitution as an ineluctable female destiny.
In a hieratic black and white, accompanied by Bach’s Passion, he recounts a world far from both the bourgeois and the proletarian world, dominated by an anguish that seems to come from the prehistory of existence.
For those who want to (re) discover a masterpiece.
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