I was looking forward to this event to be able to have unmediated impressions in real time about one of the most important directors in Italian cinema who started his career in 1965, while living in London with a remarkable masterpiece: I pugni in tasca – Fists in the Pocket.
I came early to get a [...]

Marco Bellocchio, Italy’s second generation of film directors after WW2, highly influenced by the British cinema, provides in his film debut a counter and radical approach to the bourgeois family values, religion and the Neo-realism movement.
Charged with the director’s autobiographical elements, over the edge acting style and Ennio Morricone’s circular vocal treatments – the film [...]