Amore e rabbia (1969)

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Directors:

Marco Bellocchio
Bernardo Bertolucci

Writers:

Puccio Pucci (story) (segments "L'indifferenza", "Agonia" and "La sequenza del fiore di carta") &
Piero Badalassi (story) (segments "L'indifferenza", "Agonia" and "La sequenza del fiore di carta") ...

Release Date:

29 May 1969 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks...

Plot Keywords:

Actor | Argument | Performance | Pursuit | Flower

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Tom Baker	...	(segment "L'indifferenza")
Julian Beck	...	(segment "Agonia")
Jim Anderson	...	(segment "Agonia")
Judith Malina	...	(segment "Agonia")
Giulio Cesare Castello	...	(segment "Agonia")
Adriano Aprà	...	(segment "Agonia")
Fernaldo Di Giammatteo	...	(segment "Agonia")
Ninetto Davoli	...	Riccetto (segment "La sequenza del fiore di carta")
Rochelle Barbini	...	The little girl (segment "La sequenza del fiore di carta")
Aldo Puglisi	...	Dio (segment "La sequenza del fiore di carta") (voice)
Christine Guého	...	(segment "L'amore")
Nino Castelnuovo	...	(segment "L'amore")
Catherine Jourdan	...	(segment "L'amore")
Paolo Pozzesi	...	(segment "L'amore")
Marco Bellocchio	...	Lecturer (segment "Discutiamo discutiamo")

Also Known As:

Évangile 70 (France)
La contestation (France)
Love and Anger
Vangelo '70 (Italy) (alternative title)

Runtime:

102 min

Country:

Italy | France

Language:

Italian | French | English | German

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Castoro

The more it's avant-garde ,the more it's dated.

One of these countless pseudo cinema vérité works which throve in the sixties in the wake of Godard and the events of 1968.This one is for highbrows ,die-hards.The rest of us can taketo their heel,or else they will yawn their head off.

Segment one is "l'indifference" :the beginning is some kind of illustration of Phil Ochs's song "outside of a small circle of friends"(1967);but soon enough is enough and when the reluctant driver appears ,it totally fails to convince.

Segment two is the most "avant-garde" ,so to speak ,of the lot: a dreadful pot-pourri of OM,Christian religion,group psychology(?).Some equivalent of one of Yoko Ono's pieces of work circa late sixties.

Segment three is Pasolini's contibution to this bill of fare:his favorite actor ,Ninetto Davoli,is wandering (dancing?)in the streets ,hoding a big paper flower(that's the title of the short).Let He who Hath understanding see the meaning.

Segment four is Godard's "l'amour".There are two sides:the political one,which focuses on Cuba,and some kind of self-criticism:his dogma ,his refusal to consider the movie as a story:at least here he says that it's not because you 've seen a lot of movies that you know the cinema;and that the seventh art is like maths before Euclide;and he goes not as far as saying that the nouvelle vague was Euclide.Modest,for a change.That does not make his segment interesting for all that.

Segment five takes place in an Italian university where student exchanges trivia about the Bourgeoisie's stranglehold on the culture.Plus ça change..

The precedent user complains about the different languages that they used in the different segments:now English,now Italian ,now French,even German;it's all in the cinema vérité game!

If you want to see a beautiful contemporary political movie that will not give you a headache ,take Luigi Comencini's "lo scopone scientifico" instead.