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Fists in the Pocket / I pugni in tasca (1965) [The Criterion Collection #333] [ReUp]

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Date: 18 Mar 2015 18:36:00
Fists in the Pocket / I pugni in tasca (1965) [The Criterion Collection #333] [ReUp]

Fists in the Pocket (1965)
A Film by Marco Bellocchio
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | Cover+Booklet | 01:48:47 | 7,88 Gb
Audio: Italian AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Art-house | The Criterion Collection #333

Director: Marco Bellocchio
Stars: Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé

Tormented by twisted desires, a young man takes drastic measures to rid his grotesquely dysfunctional family of its various afflictions in this astonishing 1965 debut from Marco Bellocchio. Charged by a coolly assured style, shocking perversity, and savage gallows humor, Fists in the Pocket 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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The provincial family at the center of Mario Bellochio’s morbidly comic feature debut Fists in the Pocket (I Pugni in tasca) is sick–literally sick. The various ailments the family members bear–the mother is blind, both sons have epilepsy, the youngest son is also mentally impaired–are really physical incarnations of their larger emotional and spiritual ennui.

Fists in the Pocket / I pugni in tasca (1965) [The Criterion Collection #333] [ReUp]

The youthful protagonist, Alessandro, is introduced in the film jumping from a tree, literally falling into the frame from above like he was dropped from the ether. Alessandro (who is variously nicknamed Ale and Sandrino) exists largely outside the world around him; he doesn’t fit in with his family or with society, and his life is marked by constant turmoil, generally of his own making. His homicidal tendencies, which he deploys as a practical solution to his familial problems, are constantly simmering beneath his studied exterior; he is a portrait of a bomb primed to explode.

Fists in the Pocket / I pugni in tasca (1965) [The Criterion Collection #333] [ReUp]

Alessandro is played by Lou Castel, who has gone on to a long and varied career as an actor, but was an unknown when Bellochio cast him in the lead. He has frequently been compared to a young Marlon Brando, particularly in his simmering, coiled anger and intense stare. However, with his tightly centered, boyish features and prematurely receding hairline, he looks like no one so much as Neil Patrick Harris, which gives him an additional edge of the uncanny. He looks simultaneous harmless and deeply threatening.

Fists in the Pocket / I pugni in tasca (1965) [The Criterion Collection #333] [ReUp]

The family’s empty patriarchal position has been assumed by the oldest brother, Augusto (Marino Masé), who is the most conventionally “normal” of the family. Frustrated by the responsibilities that have been placed on him as the eldest sibling in a divided, fatherless family, he longs to marry his girlfriend, Lucia (Jeannie McNeil), and move to an apartment in the city. The other siblings include Giulia (Paola Pitagora), who appears to be in constant competition with Alessandro to see who can cause more trouble (there are more than a few suggestions that they are involved in an incestuous relationship), and Leone (Pierluigi Troglio), the youngest son who is mentally handicapped. It is of no small significance that the mother (Liliana Gerace) is blind; as an authority figure, she is literally unseeing and therefore impotent in controlling her metaphorically inbred clan of self-destructive misfits.

Fists in the Pocket / I pugni in tasca (1965) [The Criterion Collection #333] [ReUp]

Along with Bernardo Bertolucci’s Before the Revolution (1964), Fists in the Pocket marked the beginning of a new era of Italian cinema, one that was infinitely more political and daring, essentially kicking dirt in the face of neorealism, which had dominated the cinema throughout the 1950s with its radical simplicity and innate humanism. Fists in the Pocket is a very much a product of the turbulent 1960s, when most Western countries were jolted with political unrest and generational divides that became unbreachable chasms. Released in 1965, a scant three years before the student uprisings of ’68, the film is literally quivering with pent-up rage, its title suggesting a fury just barely restrained.

Fists in the Pocket / I pugni in tasca (1965) [The Criterion Collection #333] [ReUp]

Yet, at the same time, there is something darkly comic about the film. Fists in the Pocket takes its subject seriously, but Bellocchio gives it a slightly absurd edge that flirts dangerously with the line between comedy and misfortune. Yet, this never takes away from the film’s poignant tragedy, which is that the family members all view each other as burdens and therefore attempt to sabotage each other’s happiness (Giulia attempts to destroy Augusto’s relationship with Lucia by writing a faux love letter, Alessandro threatens to drive the entire family off a cliff). They are dysfunctional because they can’t see any good in each other, which inherently reduces each family member to an object, rather than a person. This, of course, is precisely what facilitates murder: when a person becomes a “thing,” it’s much easier to nudge that thing over a cliff or push it down in the bath water, especially if that will relieve you of your burdensome responsibilities.
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Fists in the Pocket / I pugni in tasca (1965) [The Criterion Collection #333] [ReUp]

The actors are all excellent but Lou Castel's performance as the frustrated, crazed, death obsessed brother is mesmerizing. You can't take your eyes off him. And even though it was made in 1965, the film feels contemporary, mainly because of its refusal to amplify and exploit it shocking aspects or the characters' foibles to heights of schlock or melodrama. Plus, the fluid direction gives this morbid drama (which could have easily been heavy and static) a deceptively "normal" quality which works perfectly and adds even more to all of the characters' sad state of mind. The film is equally claustrophobic and expansive; claustrophobic with the (very) tight interiors and the family drama that (like one of the characters of the film wants to do) makes you want to break free and escape at all cost; and expansive because of the Italian countryside that surrounds these doomed characters. The scenery, natural and man-made, is a character of its own, seemingly symbolizing the characters precipitous existence but also overwhelmingly vast, stark and crushing, dwarfing the already tightly-knit family down to minuscule size, which then heightens their already claustrophobic existence that much more. Ennio Morricone's score is characteristically moody & chilling and complements the film perfectly.

Fists in the Pocket is a very earthy, grounded, morbid & blunt portrait of a doomed family! A must-see for those who love "pure" cinema.
IMDB Reviewer
Fists in the Pocket / I pugni in tasca (1965) [The Criterion Collection #333] [ReUp]

Disc Features:
• Featurette: A Need For a Change Video interviews with director Marco Bellocchio, actors Lou Castel and Paola Pitagora, and editor Silvano Agosti (33:27)
• Afterward by Bernardo Bertolucci (10:25)
• Original theatrical trailer
• Liner notes booklet with an essay by film critic Deborah Young and an interview with Bellochio from 1967
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