Accattone! (1961)

Italian Movie.

Over de jonge pooier Vittorio, voor vrienden Accattone (vertaald betekent de bijnaam: klaploper, schooier), die vrouw en kind verlaten heeft en zich laat onderhouden door de prostituee Maddalena. Als zij in het gevang belandt, gaat Accattone op zoek naar een nieuwe 'melkkoe´, maar hij vindt de Grote Liefde. Pasolini had al naam gemaakt als schrijver, dichter, essayist en scenarioschrijver, toen hij in 1961 met Accattone zijn eerste film regisseerde.

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When the girlfriend he pimps winds up in jail, Roman hustler Accattone (Franco Citti) struggles against hunger and guilt in his search for redemption. Pasolini's brutally realistic first feature, assistant-directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, introduces his preoccupation with the marginalized segments of Italian bourgeois society that would characterize subsequent films like MAMMA ROMA and TEOREMA.

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Accattone , Pier Paolo Pasolini's first feature, is also his first semidocumentary study of "the little homelands": the small, often squalid cultural pockets in the remotest provinces of Italy. Using nonprofessional actors for his leading characters, Pasolini concentrates on Franco Citti, a rural pimp who falls in love with virtuous Franca Pasut. Having previously led an aimless existence, Citti takes a job-and, it is implied, a bath--in hopes of impressing his new girl. It isn't long, however, before Citti gives up both job and Pasut, degenerating into a life of violent crime. As was the case with most of his su...
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bsequent films, Pasolini both directed and wrote Accattone, adapting the screenplay from his own novel
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