Franco Citti

Franca Pasut

Silvana Corsini

Paola Guidi

Adriana Asti

Luciano Conti

Luciano Gonini

Renato Capogna

Alfredo Leggi

Galeazzo Riccardi

Leonardo Muraglia

Giuseppe Ristagno

Roberto Giovannoni

Mario Cipriani

Roberto Scaringella

Silvio Citti

Giovanni Orgitano

Piero Morgia

Umberto Bevilacqua

Franco Bevilacqua

Amerigo Bevilacqua

Sergio Fioravanti

Adele Cambria

Adriano Mazzelli

Mario Castiglione

Dino Frondi

Tommaso Nuovo

Romolo Orazi

Massimo Cacciafeste

Francesco Orazi

Mario Guerani

Stefano D'Arrigo

Enrico Fioravanti

Nino Russo

Edgardo Siroli

Renato Terra

Emanuele Di Bari

Franco Marucci

Carlo Sardoni

Adriana Moneta

Polidor

Danilo Alleva

Sergio Citti

Elsa Morante

Gabriele Baldini

Franco Venditti

Luisa Loiano

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Alfredo Bini

Cino Del Duca

Tonino Delli Colli

Nino Baragli

Johann Sebastian Bach

Flavio Mogherini

Gino Lazzari

Cesare Biseo

Marcello Bollero

Eliseo Boschi

Bernardo Bertolucci

Leopoldo Savona

Manlio Magara

Luigi Puri

Franco Delli Colli

Gioacchino Sofia

Carlo Rustichelli

Lina D'Amico

Isabel Mulá

Drama

Accattone

Cino del Duca

Arco Film

Italy

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The eponymous creature (Franco Citti) is a bit of a malevolent sponge. Hs has deserted his wife and child so he can sit with his mates carousing and playing cards whilst he pimps out "Maddalena" (Silvana Corsini) and lives off her ill-gotten gains. He's quite content with this arrangement until she has an altercation with a Vesper and then finds herself rather unjustly locked up for a year. With his income dried up, he has to make some changes. He's ill equipped to get himself a job, and isn't really motivated either. Until, that is, he meets the wandering "Stella" (Franca Pasut). There are certain similarities between her and his incarcerated meal ticket, but she's no hooker nor anywhere near as green as he'd initially thought. He gradually starts to fall for her but can he sort himself out and jettison the worst elements of his past before she tells him to take a run and jump? Though it's hardly a jolly affair, I found this first of his movies to be one of Pasolini's merrier affairs that allows some humour to pepper a narrative of exploitation and manipulation. There's little doubt that the "Accattone" is a pretty odious man, but as the film moves along there's a sense that begins to creep in that he's not beyond redemption - and both the intimate photography and the engaging talent of the boyish Citti help bring that out slowly but surely. Pasut and Corsini both play well with parts that are gritty, earthy and devoid of anything that might really offer them any hope, and on the sidelines his young son "Iaio" (Danilo Alleva) often serves as the most of unlikely of anchors for his selfish father. There's always space for a comment on the place of the church in society, and here there's a distinct parody being drawn between sainthood and, well you decide... Hardly ever seen these days but well worth a couple of hours to see a Rome that Nero might well have been proud of.

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Accattone (1961) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

Pasolini's ACCATTONE (Masters of Cinema)