Filmi i të enjtës – Donnerstagfilms – Thursday Film – Le Film du Jeudi
Screening on the 31rst of March – 7 p.m. – Free Entrance
‘I Pugni in Tasca’ (Fists in the Pocket)
by Marco Bellocchio
105 min – 1965 – Italy – Drama
(italian language with english subtitles)
with Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé…
Considered one of the great lost classics of Italian neo-realism, this bleak drama was the debut feature of filmmaker Marco Bellocchio. Lou Castel stars as Alessandro, an epileptic from a large family of similarly afflicted siblings, headed up by a blind matriarch (Liljana Gerace). The only healthy member of the family is Alessandro’s brother Augusto (Marino Masé), who wants to marry his girlfriend but refuses to saddle a bride with the enormous burden of helping to care for his ailing relatives. Sympathetic to Augusto’s plight, Alessandro decides to murder the rest of the family so as to set his brother free and assure him of an inheritance. After hurling his mother into a ravine and drowning his little brother, Alessandro returns home to suffer a seizure.
Long hailed by critics and historians as an unjustly ignored film, I Pugni in Tasca (1965) was one of 15 titles selected by New York’s Museum of Modern Art for its “Second Act” retrospective of post-war Italian cinema in the spring of 2000.
Hyrja e Lire – Free Entrance – Entrée Libre – Eintritt Frei – Entrada Libre
