Cinema
Fists in the Pocket
I pugni in tasca
Marco Bellocchio · 1965
Synopsis
In an isolated villa in the Emilian countryside lives a bourgeois family: a widowed, blind mother and her four adult children. Alessandro and Leone are epileptic, their sister Giulia is frail; only Augusto, the eldest, in good health, supports the household and would like to marry and leave. Alessandro, who is suffocating in this house and envies his brother, gets it into his head to free him of this burden.
Context
Lacking a producer, the director financed the film through his brothers, who guaranteed a bank loan, and shot it in 1964 and 1965 in Emilia, notably in a family home. The cinematography is by Alberto Marrama and the music by Ennio Morricone. The film had the effect of a bombshell on its release. It was restored in 2015 by the laboratory L'Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna and re-released in France the following year.
Who it is for
Just under two hours; the first feature film of a twenty-five-year-old director, with a darkness that caused a scandal.
Prizes and reception
Silver Sail at the Locarno festival in 1965; Silver Ribbon for best original story in 1966.
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