Pier Paolo Pasolini Vol.2 DVD

Hawks And Sparrows (1966): The Hawks and the Sparrows a wildly comic fable stars the beloved stone-faced clown Toto as an Italian everyman the Ninetto Davoli as his good-natured but empty-headed son. Pasolini uses a comic crow which philosophizes amusingly and pointedly about the passing scene as a counterpoint to the performers representing humanity as they progress down the road of life. Pasolini presents a tragic fable which shows two delightful innocents caught like many Italians between Church and Marxism. Oedipus Rex (1967): A dark and riveting retelling... of the classic Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex. Unknown to himself Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother. When the truth is discovered he puts out his eyes and Oedipus wanders the streets until he is found by his daughter Antigone a common blind beggar. Set in Morocco the film is a visual wonder of desert landscapes and powerful Moorish architecture. The interesting cast include avant garde film and theater director Carmelo Bene Julian Beck from New York's Living theater and Pasolini himself as the High Priest. This remastered version is a must for any serious video collector. Pigsty (1969): Porcile (Pigsty) the story of a cannibal in a medieval wasteland is interwoven with that of the son of an ex-Nazi industrialist in modern day Germany. The young German who is more attracted to pigs than his fiance and the cannibal become sacrificial victims of their different societies. This strange grotesque and thought provoking parable is filmed with such a calm beauty and underlying disgust that it gains a deep significance as an attack on the middle classes of the 20th century. [show more]

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