Accattone (The procurer)

directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Italy, 1961, 116 min.

Pasolini’s switch from writing to filmmaking began in a surprising manner, with characters so true and so epic that nothing quite like it had ever been seen on the screen before. In the furthest bidonvilles of Rome, amid thieves and pimps, we witness the rejection of all rules governing society by an underclass on whom the director confers a sacred, legendary aura, an emblem of those to whom all roads are barred save for standardisation. The director’s assistant was a young Bernardo Bertolucci: “It was moving to witness Pier Paolo’s creativity, I felt as though I was witnessing the very origins of the cinema".

followed by

The paper flower sequence

(episode from the film Love and Anger) directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Italy, 1969, 10 min.

Images of war and genocide are superimposed on Ninetto Davoli’s merry jaunt down Via Nazionale in Rome: unaware innocence is no longer acceptable, in fact it constitutes culpable responsibility.

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