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Conceived by the Italian producer Alfredo Bini, the multi-director portmanteau film Let’s Wash Our Brains: RoGoPaG brought together four esteemed European directors to contribute comic episodes reflective of the swinging post-“boom” era. The resulting omnibus collectively examines social anxieties around sex, nuclear war, religion, urbanisation - and the promise of a modern cinema. Roberto Rossellini’s Illibatezza (Virginity) follows an airline stewardess plagued by an obsessed American tourist whose 8mm camera enables the indulgence of a personal, and solipsistic, vision of the Ideal. Jean-Luc Godard’s Il nuovo mondo (The New World) takes place in an Italian-dubbed Paris beset by nuclear fallout, and wittily chronicles the changes that take place in the lives - and medicine cabinet - of a handsome young couple. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s scandalous La ricotta (Ricotta, as in the curded cheese) presents the goings-on around a film shoot devoted to the Crucifixion and presided over by none other than Orson Welles (playing a kind of stand-in for Pasolini himself); it is this episode that landed Pasolini with a suspended four-month prison sentence. Lastly, Ugo Gregoretti’s Il pollo ruspante (Free-Range Chicken) depicts a middle-class Milanese family flirting with the purchase of real-estate and engaging catastrophically with an antagonistic consumerist infrastructure. Let’s Wash Our Brains: RoGoPaG remains one of the definitive entries of the Sixties vogue for the multi-auteur anthology film. (Eureka Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Rosanna Schiaffino
Italy
Best movies:
The Big Night (1959)
Crime Does Not Pay (1962)
The Victors (1963)
Bruce Balaban
Best movies:
Rogopag (1963)
Rossana Di Rocco
Best movies:
The Gospel According to Matthew (1964)
Le soldatesse (1965)
Hawks and Sparrows (1966)
Ugo Tognazzi
Italy
Best movies:
Viva Italia! (1977)
Una questione d'onore (1966)
All My Friends Part 2 (1982)
Orson Welles
USA
Best movies:
Shogun (1980) (series) - narrator
Waterloo (1970)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Ricky Tognazzi
Italy
Best movies:
The Family (1987)
The Monsters (1963)
Il papa buono (2003) (TV movie)
Tomas Milian
Cuba
Best movies:
JFK (1991)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
Traffic (2000)
Alexandra Stewart
Canada
Best movies:
Day for Night (1973)
The Hidden Face (2011)
Bolero (1981)
Jean-Marc Bory
Switzerland
Best movies:
The Stranger (1967)
Triple Cross (1966)
Le Sheriff (1977)
Lisa Gastoni
Italy
Best movies:
Wake Up and Die (1966)
Doctor in the House (1954)
Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini (2007) (TV movie)
Elsa de Giorgi
Italy
Best movies:
Rogopag (1963)
Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Laura Betti
Italy
Best movies:
1900 (1976)
La dolce vita (1960)
Wait for the Dawn (1960)
Michel Delahaye
Algeria
André S. Labarthe
France
Best movies:
Vivre sa vie (1962)
Breathless (1960)
Mad Love (1969)
Ettore Garofolo
Italy
Best movies:
An Average Little Man (1977)
Mamma Roma (1962)
Down and Dirty (1976)
Mario Cipriani
Best movies:
Accattone (1961)
Mamma Roma (1962)
Rogopag (1963)