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A young man takes drastic measures to rid his dysfunctional family of its various afflictions.A young man takes drastic measures to rid his dysfunctional family of its various afflictions.A young man takes drastic measures to rid his dysfunctional family of its various afflictions.
- Awards
- 4 wins & 5 nominations
Pier Luigi Troglio
- Leone
- (as Pierluigi Troglio)
Jeannie McNeil
- Lucia
- (as Jenny Mac Neil)
- Director
- Writer
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- TriviaThe house, the film's main location, is the house director Marco Bellocchio spent his childhood days in.
- GoofsWhen the whole family is having dinner, Augusto is seated at one corner of the table and the mother is sitting on a side at the other corner. The cat is shown to be eating meat off the mother's plate in one scene, but in the next scene Augusto is shown picking up the cat as if was right next to him on the table. Once he removes the cat, the next camera angle again shows Augusto and the mother at opposite ends.
- Quotes
Alessandro: I'm a volcano of ideas.
- ConnectionsEdited into Sorelle (2006)
- SoundtracksExcerpt from La Traviata
composed by Giuseppe Verdi (uncredited)
lyrics by Francesco Maria Piave (uncredited)
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When this film first appeared in the 1960s, the effect was so startlingly individual: there had never been a film as bold, as seemingly unhinged, yet as ruthlessly controlled, as this first feature by Marco Bellocchio. The wonderfully atmospheric black-and-white cinematography seemed to be developed from some dingy dream which dared to bring out into the open the most heinous family secrets, yet the utterly dispassionate fury which animated the most frenzied sequences was so freakish it was almost funny. This constant tension somehow allowed for a sneaky kind of compassion to enter the movie, so that the family dynamics, though extreme, seemed to come out of a common nightmare. FISTS IN THE POCKET remains an embattled cry for a new society, by focusing on the remnants of the diseased upper classes, yet this tale of sound and fury seems to have been made in the kind of frenzied reverie that is analogous to the stream-of-conscious jumble which William Faulkner used at the beginning of THE SOUND AND THE FURY, and to the same effect, i.e., to chart a family's disintegration as a mirror to the decaying grandeur of a dying society.
- lqualls-dchin
- May 6, 2008
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- Fist in His Pocket
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- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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