Fists in the Pocket (Criterion Collection) (Blu ray) [USA]

C.C. 95

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Release Date: September 3, 2019
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Director: Marco Bellocchio
Writer: Marco Bellocchio
Starring: Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé
  • Italy
  • 1965
  • 108 minutes
  • Black & White
  • 1.85:1
  • Italian
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Tormented by twisted desires, a young man takes drastic measures to rid his grotesquely dysfunctional family of its various afflictions, in this astonishing debut from Marco Bellocchio. Characterized 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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DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
  • On the DVD: Restored high-definition digital transfer
  • On the Blu-ray: New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Marco Bellocchio, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • Interviews from 2005 with Bellocchio, actors Lou Castel and Paola Pitagora, editor Silvano Agosti, critic Tullio Kezich, and filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci
  • New interview with scholar Stefano Albertini (Blu-ray only)
  • Trailer
  • New English subtitle translation
  • PLUS: An essay by film critic Deborah Young and (with the DVD) an interview with Bellocchio
ORIGINAL ITALIAN TRAILER:
 
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