Fists in the Pocket
(I pugni in tasca)
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Directed by Marco Bellocchio.
With Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé.
Italy, 1965, 35mm, black & white, 105 min.
Italian with English subtitles.
With Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé.
Italy, 1965, 35mm, black & white, 105 min.
Italian with English subtitles.
The members of a middle-class Italian family are afflicted with varying disabilities including epilepsy, blindness, and mental illness. Augusto (Masè), the one family member who is not disabled, hesitates to marry his girlfriend for fear that she will be burdened with his family's problems, and he continues to dutifully fulfill his role as breadwinner for the clan. His younger brother, Alessandro (Castel) devises a plan to relieve his brother of these responsibilities by murdering each of his family members. This first feature from Marco Bellocchio is an unforgiving indictment of Italian bourgeois life.
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