Accattone

Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1961
B&W, cert 15, 120 mins

Saturday 2 August, 2.30pm
Sainsbury Wing Theatre

The painfully realistic story of pimp Accattone (Franco Citti), living off the earnings of his mistress in Rome’s poorest district, was the first film of novelist and poet Pasolini.

It reveals his enduring fascination with the language and behaviour of those on the margins of Italian society. But there is lyricism amid the squalor: Bach’s ‘St Matthew’s Passion’ plays on the soundtrack and there are many parallels with the Gospels; one of Accattone’s prostitutes is even called Maddalena.

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