Wednesday | April 5, 2000 6:30 pm

The Hawks and the Sparrows
(Uccellacci e Uccellini)

Screening on Film

Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
With Ninetto Davoli, Rosanna Di Rocco, Renato Capogna.
Italy, 1966, 35mm, black & white, 88 min.
Italian with English subtitles.

A father and son become vagabonds and are accompanied by an intellectual talking crow. They set out on a picaresque journey to emulate St. Francis of Assisi’s mission to the birds. Following his The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Pasolini presents a tragicomic fable which shows two delightful innocents caught, like many Italians, between the Church and Marxism.