Marco Bellocchio's debut film, Fists in the Pocket was released in 1965 and soon established itself as the manifesto for a malaise that anticipated the turmoil of 1968. Framed by Alberto Marrama’s cinematography and Ennio Morricone’s evocative music, the film presents a family in an atmosphere of tension, repression, and subtle violence.
The four fatherless brothers and their blind mother live in an isolated villa in the Emilian Apennines. Their seemingly unchanging lives hide a restlessness primed for explosion, leading to an inevitably tragic ending.
In the still and suffocating province, Bellocchio depicts family as a place of tension, repression, and subtle violence. He sugar-coats nothing, his spare style vents discomfort seeking no consolation.
The exteriors were filmed in the streets and squares of Bobbio and Piacenza.
Marco Bellocchio's debut film, Fists in the Pocket was released in 1965 and soon established itself as the manifesto for a malaise that anticipated the turmoil of 1968. Framed by Alberto Marrama’s cinematography and Ennio Morricone’s evocative music, the film presents a family in an atmosphere of tension, repression, and subtle violence.
The four fatherless brothers and their blind mother live in an isolated villa in the Emilian Apennines. Their seemingly unchanging lives hide a restlessness primed for explosion, leading to an inevitably tragic ending.
In the still and suffocating province, Bellocchio depicts family as a place of tension, repression, and subtle violence. He sugar-coats nothing, his spare style vents discomfort seeking no consolation.
The exteriors were filmed in the streets and squares of Bobbio and Piacenza.
Doria Cinematografica
Epileptic Alessandro feels suffocated by his home environment, an isolated, fragile family in the Piacenza Apennines, and develops a desperate plan to rid himself of his blind mother and siblings, whom he identifies as an obstacle to the self-fulfilment he isn't quite sure of himself. His rebellion, more self-destructive than liberating, drags his family and himself into inevitable tragedy.
