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Weird as hell but strangely compelling, Davide Manuli’s The Legend of Kaspar Hauser reenvisions the German youth’s story as a fable existing outside any recognizable reality and revolving around magic, dope, and thumping dance music. With Vincent Gallo hamming his way through not one but two roles, the cult-courting film will be catnip for Gallomaniacs. But the real star is Silvia Calderoni, a stage actress making her apparent film debut in the title role.

Shot in B&W on the isle of Sardinia, Legend offers a stark, out-of-time village whose many age-old buildings are inhabited by just a half-dozen characters. Gallo plays two: a constantly muttering Sheriff, with stringy blonde hair and a short fuse, and The Pusher, an enigma dressed in all-white motorcycle gear whose role in the community is not explained beyond his name.

The mysterious Hauser (referred to as a boy, though played by a flat-chested woman) washes up on the beach, almost dead, with big headphones on his ears and his name emblazoned on his naked torso. The Sheriff, who somehow anticipated Kaspar’s arrival, brings the boy home and teaches him tricks: juggling oranges, for instance, and DJing. (For the island’s “Duchess,” Kaspar bangs his head against the wall repeatedly. “He’s very talented,” she declares. “Yeah, he’s a special boy,” the Sheriff replies.) At all times, Kaspar’s headphones remain on — connected to no music source, though the boy contorts to the beat of unheard dancefloor rhythms.

Using disconnected scenes to sketch out a just-barely-comprehensible narrative, Manuli delights in weird moments that sometimes play as parodies of ’60s art and ’70s cult cinema (complete with a strangely disfigured man playing the local priest’s servant boy) and often seem intended solely for chemically-altered midnight audiences. Few sequences try the skeptical viewer’s patience, though, and many entertain in their own way — while Gallo lays his performance on thick, he’s frequently upstaged by Calderoni’s singular, beat-of-another-drummer physical presence.

Just don’t ask what any of it — especially bookending shots in which Gallo does Saturday Night Fever moves while UFOs zoom overhead — means. – The Hollywood Reporter

The.Legend.of.Kaspar.Hauser.2012.576p.BluRay.x264-KG.mkv

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Language(s):English, Italian
Subtitles:English (non-English parts only), English, Russian, German

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Mental Masturbation, a Super 8 short imbued with a blessed soundtrack of trance music (an element that would be recurrent in all his latter films), was a point of start into what would be the most appreciated (and hated) element of Manuli’s cinema: The rescue of the absurdist to paint an atmosphere of freedom, in which music (in this case, electronic music) serves as the only link of meaningful communication between its characters, or between its protagonists and the settings of his films, the relation man-man and man-nature.
(translated from desistfilm.com)

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https://nitro.download/view/02BED4F1264340E/Mental_Masturbation_(Davide_Manuli,_1992).mkv

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Synopsis
Freak and Jajà are in a place with no date and time. A no man’s world. The earth is no longer inhabited by man, but on rare occasions a strange survivor or two will appear. The two protagonists who have never met, meet at Bus stop in the middle of nowhere. The Bus arrives but doesn’t stop, it was the Bus that was going to GODOT, the God which manifested itself through a musical sound on the other side of the mountain. So Freak and Jajà decide to look for him on foot, in this way embarking on a journey that will have them meet the bizarre characters living on this land. Unfortunately Freak and Jajà at the end of their journey… will meet up with death before reaching their God.

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Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English

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Angelo is an orphan who grew up with a nomad woman. He reacts to his pain over the death of his best friend for overdose, thanks to the encounter with Serena. She survives being a prostitute, but she has not lost hope. Angelo moves along an axis of characters in a desolate and poetic day without end.

https://nitroflare.com/view/A849EDB94AED1D0/Davide_Manuli-Girotondo_giro_intorno_al_mondo-1998.avi

Language:Italian, French
Subtitles:Italian hardsubs for French dialogues

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