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SYNOPSIS: One of the handful of films that found Pier Paolo Pasolini sustaining a merrier mode of cultural assault, Hawks and Sparrows [Uccellacci e uccellini] features Italy's popular comic actor Totò (known to cinephiles as the star of Roberto Rossellini's Dov'è la liberta...?) and Pasolini regular Ninetto Davoli in a picaresque fable that lampoons politics, religion, and the legacy of neorealism.
A crow gifted with the power of speech accompanies wandering duo Totò and Ninetto on a trail that leads to their roles as Franciscan friars who preach to the literal "hawks and sparrows", before returning in time to gaze upon slum-dwellers, Danteist dentists, itinerant actor-hippies, and, ultimately, the state of the modern world.
Featuring a score by the legendary Ennio Morricone, Pasolini's anarchic comedy remains a time-capsule of the giddy tensions torqued by the dawn of the late Sixties. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Hawks and Sparrows in a special DVD edition from a new HD master.
SPECIAL EDITION DVD FEATURES:
A crow gifted with the power of speech accompanies wandering duo Totò and Ninetto on a trail that leads to their roles as Franciscan friars who preach to the literal "hawks and sparrows", before returning in time to gaze upon slum-dwellers, Danteist dentists, itinerant actor-hippies, and, ultimately, the state of the modern world.
Featuring a score by the legendary Ennio Morricone, Pasolini's anarchic comedy remains a time-capsule of the giddy tensions torqued by the dawn of the late Sixties. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Hawks and Sparrows in a special DVD edition from a new HD master.
SPECIAL EDITION DVD FEATURES:
- New high-definition transfer in the film s original aspect ratio
- Original Italian theatrical trailer
- Newly translated optional English subtitles
- 28-PAGE BOOKLET featuring a new essay on the film by critic and scholar Pasquale Iannone; a 1969 interview by Oswald Stack with the director about the film; a new English translation by Iannone of a 1974 interview with Pasolini discussing the film s star Toto; and rare archival imagery
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An intriguing tragicomic fable that shows two delightful innocents caught, like many Italians at the time, between the Church and communism. --Film 4
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By A. S. Potts
Format:DVD
So begins the dialogue of Pasolini's Uccellacci E Uccellini as our two protagonists, a father [Toto] and his son [Davoli] come walking down the road. A road they are still negotiating at the end of the film and as with life, for which the road is an obvious metaphor, they experience many and various highs and lows. Along the way they perceive the human condition through the prism of Pasolini's idiosyncratic eye.
Ostensibly, this is Pasolini as comic film maker and in spite of he himself having stated that it wasn't that funny I find it continually amusing and sometimes hilarious. But it's not long before the politics become apparent. Throughout, he deploys a wide variety of pictorial and musical techniques, from accelerated action and slapstick, to asymmetrical framing and the inclusion of documentary footage, but most fabulous of all is the glorious sung title sequence by Ennio Morricone.
I don't think I'm giving anything away when I say the protagonists are accosted by a talking crow who then accompanies them on their journey. It is the crow who introduces the mediaeval story within the story, that is the Hawks and Sparrows episode. Through the talking crow Pasolini expresses his ideological discourse which in my naive appraisal I would reduce to 'the big fish eat the little fish'. This consumption is represented to the extreme in the visceral Pigsty simultaneously released by MoC.
It will no doubt be a matter of personal preference whether you consider this film to be a successful amalgam of disparate elements or something of a bemusing mishmash of ideas. I find it very satisfying and I think the least that could be said about it is that it is a film of small and wonderful fleeting details, some comic and some profound.... Read more ›
Ostensibly, this is Pasolini as comic film maker and in spite of he himself having stated that it wasn't that funny I find it continually amusing and sometimes hilarious. But it's not long before the politics become apparent. Throughout, he deploys a wide variety of pictorial and musical techniques, from accelerated action and slapstick, to asymmetrical framing and the inclusion of documentary footage, but most fabulous of all is the glorious sung title sequence by Ennio Morricone.
I don't think I'm giving anything away when I say the protagonists are accosted by a talking crow who then accompanies them on their journey. It is the crow who introduces the mediaeval story within the story, that is the Hawks and Sparrows episode. Through the talking crow Pasolini expresses his ideological discourse which in my naive appraisal I would reduce to 'the big fish eat the little fish'. This consumption is represented to the extreme in the visceral Pigsty simultaneously released by MoC.
It will no doubt be a matter of personal preference whether you consider this film to be a successful amalgam of disparate elements or something of a bemusing mishmash of ideas. I find it very satisfying and I think the least that could be said about it is that it is a film of small and wonderful fleeting details, some comic and some profound.... Read more ›
4 of 11 people found the following review helpful
The film as a whole might be a bit problematic,but a few brilliant scenes in it makes it a master piece. Watching this film you can only be amased how could Pasolini be so wise and yet so unfull of himself. His cinematic sense of humour is a gift so rare in it's self irony and humanism. I heard he did he's wonderful short film: "Earth as it appears from the moon" as a second try to do "Hawks and Sparrows" again, better, since he thought "Hawks" came out too ideological.What a genious, he made two great films because he was dissatisfied with one.
2 of 14 people found the following review helpful
By Kiran David
Format:DVD
While I'm very happy both Hawks and sparrows and Pigsty are being brought out by Masters of Cinema whose releases I'm sure will be far superior to the earlier DVD versions, I must confess being more than a trifle disappointed that these are not getting the Blu Ray treatment some of the Pasolini films are getting. I wonder what the reason is.
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