Accatonne!
Accatonne!
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This is simply one of the most important films of the last 40 years, and a milestone in Italian filmmaking. A parable of redemption set in the slums of Rome, Accatone, "The Scrounger" (Franco Citti), lives as a thief, beggar and pimp. He's in love with Stella, tries to reform her, but fails. "Accattonne!, the debut film of Pier Paolo Pasolini, is notable for its rough-edged style, its cool, unhysterical portrait of corruption, cruelty, and violence, and its quiet lyricism marked one of the most significant directorial debuts of the sixties" (Georges Sadoul). In Italian with English subtitles.

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  | Coco#1

It is not a great movie, but one definitely worth seeing. The film's character is neither a saint nor complete sinner. He may exploit women for his well-being, but at the same time he also takes care of a homeless woman with 4 small children. The film is a metaphor about our current class-based capitalist world. The film begins with a quote from Dante's purgatorio. We on this earth live in a Hell created by our social system. The best we, the lower class, as symbolized by the main character Accatone, can hope for is to die and go to Purgatory.

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  | Phillip#1

Liked the movie and an excellent depiction of life at that time in history . The only negative in watching this is some hard to read subtitles in white against white backrounds.

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