Accattone October 27, 2011

Director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film is an absorbing view from the gutter that forever changed the definition of Italian Neo-Realism. The film stays on the heels of the hustler Accattone as he preys on one young woman after another. Franco Citti, one of the many non-professional actors discovered by Pasolini, hauntingly embodies the lead role, abetting Pasolini’s creation of a somber and unforgettable tone poem—which was later fittingly saluted by Morrissey in his song “You Have Killed Me.” The crystalline cinematography is by Tonino Delli Colli who went on to shoot The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West before returning to work with Pasolini on Canterbury Tales and Salo.

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