“The desire to be normal transforms Marcello Clerici into a killer for the Fascist regime. He goes to Paris to kill a former professor now in exile. On 25 July 1943 he makes a terrible discovery.” (Morando Morandini)
“A faithful portrayal of relationships as they changed after May 1968”, in this chamber drama by Jean Eustache “the characters express their feelings, their malaise and the difficult search for a new morale.”
““As slow and dense as a prayer, Andrey Tarkovsky’s second last film is the poem of distance and faith, the director’s farewell to a difficult and ungrateful homeland, his personal praise of folly, and an enchanting manifesto against the dictatorship of beauty.” (Alberto Anile)
“Pasolini’s dazzling debut in cinema, Accattone is the story of a thief from the Roman borgate, steeped in the sub-proletarian reality that the writer, upon coming to Rome in the 1950s, had described with passion in his novels.” (Gianni Volpi)
“The Chinese director’s film debut was an impetuously free re-interpretation of Scorsese’s masterpiece Mean Streets, set in a dislocated cultural system and performed with a fully post-modern sensibility.” (Alessandro Baratti)