Giuseppe Bertolucci

1963: The Mondo Libero newsreel by Gastone Ferranti and other material found in Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and England became, for Pier Paolo Pasolini, the basis for a lyrical and polemical analysis of the social phenomena and conflicts affecting the modern world, from the Cold War to the Economic Boom, with commentary consisting of a “poetical voice” (Giorgio Bassani) and a “prosaic voice” (Renato Guttuso).
While Pasolini was working on editing “La Rabbia”, the producer, with either political and/or commercial motives, decided to turn the movie into a four-handed work, and entrusted Giovannino Guareschi with a part of it, following the well known journalist-like scheme “seen by right, seen by left.”
Pasolini reacted with irritation to this forced co-habitation, but in the end he acquiesced, giving up the first part of his movie to make room for Guareschi’s segment.Read More »

Une rue jonchée de papiers. Les jambes des passants. Un jeune homme traverse la rue. Puis on le retrouve en pleine discussion avec un ami. « Tu es toujours décidé à partir ? – Oui, je pars aujourd’hui à dix sept heures en avion. »

A street, littered by papers. Passersby’s legs. A young man crosses the street. Later, that same man is talking with a friend. “Are you still sure to leave? – Yes, I’m going today at 5 P.M .”

Film restauré en 2010 à partir des éléments 16 mm déposés par Jean-Claude Biette à la Cinémathèque française.Read More »