From its sung opening credits, Hawks and Sparrows (Uccellacci e uccellini) is a wonderfully free-form picaresque fable that lampoons politics, religion and the state of modern Italy, as the beloved comic actor Totò, Pasolini regular Ninetto Davoli and a talking crow wander the landscape through a gauntlet of unexpected encounters. Pigsty (Porcile) is one of his most controversial works, interspersing the mute wanderings of cannibalistic savages against a barren, volcanic earth with the tale of Julian (played by Nouvelle Vague icon Jean-Pierre Léaud), his radically... politicised fiancée Ida (Anne Wiazemsky, Au Hasard Balthazar), and the financial machinations of his father Herr Klotz in contemporary industrialised Germany. Both films demonstrate a restless, pioneering artist's exploration of the natural world contrasted with the societal structures that govern human life. Visually inspired and playing by no-one's rules other than his own, these two brilliant works by Pasolini are presented on Blu-ray for the first time in a new limited edition. [show more]
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Double bill of Italian comedy dramas directed by Pier Pablo Pasolini. Structured as a parable within a parable, 'Hawks and Sparrows' (1966) follows Brother Totó (Totó) and his son Ninetto (Ninetto Davoli) as they wander the countryside around Rome accompanied by a talking crow (voice of Francesco Leonetti), who espouses Marxist philosophy. The crow goes on to tell them about the religious conversion of hawks and sparrows by two of St Francis' followers. 'Pigsty' (1969) contains two parallel stories. One takes place at an undetermined point in the past and follows the inhuman rampage of a pair of cannibals. The second story follows a wealthy family of German industrialists. Herr Klotz (Alberto Lionello) has amassed a fortune but his son, Julian (Jean-Pierre Léaud), takes little interest in his father's business and the rivalries it entails. Neither does he appear to have much interest in his fiancée, Ida (Anne Wiazemsky) as he much prefers to lie down in the family's pigsty. His behaviour seems unfathomable, but is it really?
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