- Format: PAL
- Language Italian
- Subtitles: English
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.77:1
- Number of discs: 3
- Classification: 15
- Studio: Tartan
- DVD Release Date: 23 April 2007
- Run Time: 287 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000MR9F0M
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 91,635 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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These expensively priced Pasolini box sets boast very snazzy design & each includes a paperback novel, but the actual selection of films leaves a lot to be desired. The first box featured one classic "Accatone" but missed its classic companion piece "Mama Roma", including instead an obscure documentary and anthology film that barely qualified as a proper Pasolini films. This second box again has one classic - "Oedipus" - but lacks its fellow mythic classic "Medea", instead including two experimental efforts which in turn lack their classic companion piece "Theorem". This box also lacks the relevant short films but does include a couple of rough documentary sketches on India & Yemen. Anyway, while vainly wishing for a definitive Pasolini library, I have to say that the 3 films in this second box set are personal favourites but may not be everyone's cup of cappuccino.
"Oedipus Rex" is reasonably straightforward - the Freudian aspect is kept to the prologue & coda, the main part of the film is about Pasolini's fascination with myth and the "primitive". Franco Citti from Accatone gives another great performance. The other two films are minor mid-sixties avant-garde affairs, situated somewhere between Godard and Bunuel. "Hawks and Sparrows" features Chaplinesque comic Toto in a hilarious double act with the irrepressible Ninetto. They play a couple of Beckettian tramps walking through the Italian margins accompanied by a Marxist raven who witters on about the death of ideology - eventually meeting an amusingly horrible end at the hands of an exasperated Toto. There are lots of references to the crisis of Italian communism plus documentary footage of party leader Togliatti's funeral. There is also a long "film within the film" of Toto & Ninetto as Franciscan monks trying to preach to the birds - a parody of Rossellini's "St Francis" film (recently released on DVD if you want to check it out). Great soundtrack from Morricone - best opening credit sequence ever & good performance by the crow too! But if you have no knowledge of Italian communism or Italian cinema then you may find the film incomprehensible. The same goes for "Pigsty" which features 2 intercut narratives, one contemporary with Leaud & Wiazemsky as radical student children of an ex-Nazi father (who might even be Hitler!) & the other narrative going back a few centuries with Clementi wandering around a desolate volcanic landscape & turning to cannibalism. These films could do with notes, introduction or commentary - a lot of people nowadays may find them a bit of a mystifying challenge. So, overall, these box sets are welcome but could do better.
"Oedipus Rex" is reasonably straightforward - the Freudian aspect is kept to the prologue & coda, the main part of the film is about Pasolini's fascination with myth and the "primitive". Franco Citti from Accatone gives another great performance. The other two films are minor mid-sixties avant-garde affairs, situated somewhere between Godard and Bunuel. "Hawks and Sparrows" features Chaplinesque comic Toto in a hilarious double act with the irrepressible Ninetto. They play a couple of Beckettian tramps walking through the Italian margins accompanied by a Marxist raven who witters on about the death of ideology - eventually meeting an amusingly horrible end at the hands of an exasperated Toto. There are lots of references to the crisis of Italian communism plus documentary footage of party leader Togliatti's funeral. There is also a long "film within the film" of Toto & Ninetto as Franciscan monks trying to preach to the birds - a parody of Rossellini's "St Francis" film (recently released on DVD if you want to check it out). Great soundtrack from Morricone - best opening credit sequence ever & good performance by the crow too! But if you have no knowledge of Italian communism or Italian cinema then you may find the film incomprehensible. The same goes for "Pigsty" which features 2 intercut narratives, one contemporary with Leaud & Wiazemsky as radical student children of an ex-Nazi father (who might even be Hitler!) & the other narrative going back a few centuries with Clementi wandering around a desolate volcanic landscape & turning to cannibalism. These films could do with notes, introduction or commentary - a lot of people nowadays may find them a bit of a mystifying challenge. So, overall, these box sets are welcome but could do better.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Because I am an American, and do not possess an English bank account, I am unable to list this item for sale. That said, if anyone is interested in the above set for a much reasonable price than offered above, please leave a comment for this post and I'll get back to you.
Great set, by the way!
Great set, by the way!
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