Independent British distributors Eureka Entertainment have officially announced their upcoming Dual Format Edition of controversial Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini's (
Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom;
The Gospel According to Matthew;
The Decameron)
Accattone (1961), starring Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini, and Adriana Asti. Also included with
Accatone is Pasolini's feature-length documentary
Comizi d'amore a.k.a
Love Meetings (1964). Street date is March 26th.
Special Features:
- New high-definition transfer of Accattone in the film's original aspect ratio
- Pasolini's 1965 feature-length documentary Comizi d'amore a.k.a Love Meetings, on the complementary theme of Italian attitudes towards sex
- Original Italian theatrical trailers for both films
- Newly translated optional English subtitles for both films
- More extras to be announced nearer to release date
- Booklet featuring rare archival imagery, the words of Pasolini, and more!
The debut feature of Italian filmmaker-novelist-poet-provocateur Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Accattone rocked the cinema world with its depictions, at once raw and elegant, of the underside of Roman street life – and, in the process, seemed to announce a new direction for Italian films: a neo-neorealism.
On the mean streets of Rome, Accattone's eponymous pimp (played by Franco Citti, one of a remarkable cast of local non-professionals) leads a hand-to-mouth existence on the very margins of society: prostituting, scrounging, exploiting. When his prize prostitute Maddalena (Silvana Corsini) is arrested and jailed, the pimp's fortunes dwindle, and he is forced to confront his own existence.
The work of one of Italy's foremost auteurs,
Accattone combines a fascination with poverty, sexual mores, and the entrapments of society, with a sense of humanity and sanctity rarely seen in cinema.