On May 17, Italian label Raro Video will release the DVD of the highly charged 1963 documentary La Rabbia (The Rage), directed by the acclaimed filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini and writer/director Giovanni Guareschi.
Pasolini (c.) releases his rage in the 1963 documentary La Rabbia.
In 1962, Pasolini was invited by an Italian newsreel producer to create a feature-length film essay from his company’s library of footage. Inspired by the diverse wealth of imagery, Pasolini set out to make a movie as “a show of indignation against the unreality of the bourgeois world.” Assembling images from the Soviet bloc and various anti-colonial movements as complement and contrast to the newsreel footage, Pasolini crafted a tour de force of politically trenchant commentary on the modern world, climaxing in a moving meditation on the death of Marilyn Monroe.
Reportedly, La Rabbia’s producer feared controversy and box-office failure for the documentary, prompting him to demand...
Pasolini (c.) releases his rage in the 1963 documentary La Rabbia.
In 1962, Pasolini was invited by an Italian newsreel producer to create a feature-length film essay from his company’s library of footage. Inspired by the diverse wealth of imagery, Pasolini set out to make a movie as “a show of indignation against the unreality of the bourgeois world.” Assembling images from the Soviet bloc and various anti-colonial movements as complement and contrast to the newsreel footage, Pasolini crafted a tour de force of politically trenchant commentary on the modern world, climaxing in a moving meditation on the death of Marilyn Monroe.
Reportedly, La Rabbia’s producer feared controversy and box-office failure for the documentary, prompting him to demand...
- 3/10/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
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