Screening of “Accattone” by Pier Paolo Pasolini
© 1961 SND (GROUPE M6) / COMPASS/MOVIETIME. Tous droits réservés.
Deprived of Maddalena, who is in prison because of him, Accattone, a cowardly and unscrupulous pimp, must find a way to earn a living. He tries to return to his son’s mother, but she kicks him out. Then he meets Stella, a pure and naive young girl, and falls in love with her…
ACCATTONE
1961 | Italy | 117 mn | Black & White | 1.37:1 | VISA : 26 106 | VOSTF
A film by Pier Paolo PASOLINI
Screenplay Pier Paolo PASOLINI
Assistant director Bernardo BERTOLUCCI
Starring Franco CITTI, Franca PASUT, Silvana CORSINI, Paola GUIDI
Dialogues Sergio CITTI
Director of photography Tonino DELLI COLLI
Produced by Alfredo BINI
Distribution : Carlotta films
Released in 1961, Accattone is the first feature film by writer, poet, journalist and screenwriter Pier Paolo Pasolini. The action takes place in the deprived suburbs of Rome, which the novice filmmaker knows well from his novels.
With this film, Pasolini has one foot in neo-realism, through the social and political concerns he develops and the almost documentary look at these drifting characters and their miserable daily lives. The images he shows are harsh and violent, even if the filmmaker refrains from making any moral judgments. But Accattone goes beyond a simple sub-proletarian chronicle. Through his aesthetic choices, Pasolini gives his characters all the elegance and poetry they deserve: against the darkness of the world, dazzling, solar photography; against the triviality of situations, the sacred music of Bach, which elevates his hero Accattone to the rank of a quasi-christic figure.
4K restoration by the Cineteca di Bologna and The Film Foundation in collaboration with Compass Film at the L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, with funding from the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.
