UCCELLACCI BIRDS
Genre: Philosophical-humorous reflection
Direction: Pier Paolo Pasolini. With Totò, Ninetto Davoli, Femi Benussi, Rossana Di Rocco, Rosina Moroni, Lena Lin Solaro, the voice of Francesco Leonetti
Totò and Ninetto Davoli in the film “Uccellacci e uccellini” by Pier Paolo Pasolini (photo Contrasto).
Faced with a summer program that is hitting an all-time low of the century (this one, but also the past one), it’s worth keeping an eye on programming of summer arenasfreer in proposing titles penalized by scarce seasonal tendencies or in paying homage to anniversaries.
How the Pasolini centenary that has made it recover, especially thanks to the Cineteca di Bologna, titles to see and review. For example the always surprising Birds and birdsan imaginative humorous apologue on the role of the intellectual and the transformation of the people.
It tells of two anonymous guys (with the faces of Totò and Ninetto Davoli) charged with evicting poor people who do not pay rent and who meet a talking (and very knowledgeable) crow who tries to tell them about the misadventures of two friars who would like to preach peace and love.
A laughable plot which, however, offers Pasolini the opportunity for an unusual freedom of expression, where fiction and documentary, philosophy and fable are mixed to talk about the crisis of the Italian left (we are in 1966, immediately after the death of Togliatti) but more generally of the need for a secular religiosity, precisely the one that two years earlier he had told in Gospel according to Matthew.
For those who want to (re) discover an unexpected Pasolini.
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