Italy
1965
108 minutes
Black and White
1.85:1
Italian
Watch Film for $5333
Tormented by twisted desires, a young man takes drastic measures to rid his grotesquely dysfunctional family of its various afflictions in this astonishing 1965 debut from Marco Bellocchio. Charged by a coolly assured style, shocking perversity, and savage gallows humor, Fists in the Pocket was a gleaming ice pick in the eye of bourgeois family values and Catholic morality, a truly unique work that continues to rank as one of the great achievements of Italian cinema.
| Alessandro | Lou Castel |
| Giulia | Paola Pitagora |
| Augusto | Marino Masé |
| Mother | Liliana Gerace |
| Leone | Pierluigi Troglio |
| Lucia | Jenny MacNeil |
| Director | Marco Bellocchio |
| Screenplay | Marco Bellocchio |
| Producer | Enzo Doria |
| Cinematography | Alberto Marrama |
| Editing | Silvano Agosti |
| Music | Ennio Morricone |
| Production manager | Ugo Novello |
| Art direction | Gisella Longo |
The eighty-one-year-old Ennio Morricone has been composing hypnotic music for film since the early 1960s, for projects ranging from spaghetti westerns (his whistling, woodwindy five-note theme for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is one of the most recognizable in movie history) to Italian . . .
Made in 1965 and still considered by many to be Marco Bellocchio’s masterpiece, Fists in the Pocket foreshadows the years of student protest in a family tragedy bordering on horror. This seminal first feature catapulted the twenty-six-year-old Bellocchio to fame and introduced a controversial . . .
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