Release Date: September 3, 2019
Prices and Links:
Criterion: $31.96
Amazon: $27.27
Director: Marco Bellocchio
Writer: Marco Bellocchio
Starring: 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 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.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
Prices and Links:
Criterion: $31.96
Amazon: $27.27
Director: Marco Bellocchio
Writer: Marco Bellocchio
Starring: Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé
- Italy
- 1965
- 108 minutes
- Black & White
- 1.85:1
- Italian
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.
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
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