Directed by:
Pier Paolo PasoliniCinematography:
Giuseppe RuzzoliniCast:
Silvana Mangano, Franco Citti, Alida Valli, Julian Beck, Ninetto Davoli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Carmelo Bene, Laura Betti, Isabel Ruth (more)Plots(1)
The film is divided into three sections set in different eras. The opening takes place in 1920s Italy, and recounts a birth that echoes that of the director himself, the product of a beautiful bourgeoise's affair with a military officer. The mid section depicts a time "outside of history" - it is here that the myth of Oedipus (portrayed by Franco Citti), one of patricide and incest, plays out opposite the young man's mother/lover (Silvana Mangano). An epilogue shot on the streets of present-day Bologna finds Oedipus playing his flute for a bustling citizenry. With its kinetic handheld camerawork and strikingly primeval costumes, Pasolini's film rattles its art-genre framework in the enduring quest to exorcise repressive emotional forces. (Eureka Entertainment)
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