Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé, Liliana Gerace, Pierluigi Troglio, Jenny MacNeil. Title from opening screens. Originally released as a motion picture in 1965. New 4K digital restoratiom approved by the director. Special features: A need for change (interviews from 2005 with Bellocchio, actors Lou Castel and Paola Pitagora, editor Silvano Agosti, and critic Tullio Kezich; Bernardo Bertolucci (Bertolucci discusses his admiration for Fists in the pocket); A shock to the system (2019 interview with scholar Stefano Albertini on the influence of Fists in the pocket); trailer; on insert: an essay by Deborah Young.
Summary:
Tormented by twisted desires, a young man takes drastic measures to rid his grotesquely dysfunctional family of its various afflictions, in this debut film from Marco Bellocchio. Characterized by a coolly assured style, shocking perversity, and savage gallows humor, it was a gleaming ice pick in the eye of bourgeois family values and Catholic morality, a truly unique work that continues to rank as one of the great achievements of Italian cinema.
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