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Summary: Pasqualino, an Italian everyman, deserts the army during World War II. Germans capture him and send him to a prison camp, where he does just about anything to survive. In lengthy flashbacks, we see him and his family of seven unattractive sisters (the seven beauties), his accidental murder of one sister's lover, his confession and imprisonment, his calculated switch to an asylum, his rape of a patient, and his volunteering to be a soldier to escape confinement. To the chagrin of his obese German captor, his weak and cowardly character enables him to survive the war and return to Naples where he has a plan to survive the next world catastrophe. (imdb)
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Rozmarin |
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MadcapLaughs |
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Serves as hilarious proof that absolutely anything can be played for comedy (even in this case the concentration camps) provided it's played well. Even more impressively though it manages to tackle its subject matter with quite a lot of intelligence and nearing the end is able to bring an almost unexpected emotional oomph to the foreground, and it's probably because of these two things that the film never seems immature. Those final few moments are incredible.
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Al Chambers |
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Ibn Salami |
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OzGrenouille |
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vahidart |
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naikou |
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elephantman |
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norval_jones |
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brandonpcv |
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toro913 |
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The film's visual style is incredible. There are a lot of fantastic shots. There's a kind of dirty beauty to the shots, striking and pretty, even gaudy at times, but with an underlying sense of corruption and disgust. This runs in parallel with the film's plot where Pasqualino's quest for honour and survival requires more than a little ugliness to succeed. The dual timeline narrative adds to the film's use of contrasts and they merge at just the right point making the final act very effective.
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kronstadtli |
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dewall |
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nrm5 |
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pzingg |
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avgcrtckr |
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soliloquist |
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marjoline |
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volver |
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Serigala |
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lumpnboy |
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gunesko |
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filmaffinity |
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coltrane |
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dr. radical |
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rsinparis |
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SomewhatItay |
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meester |
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amanohyo |
55 |
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Moribunny |
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A very interesting movie, especially if you can appreciate the grotesque. It's not as good as Love and Anarchy or Swept Away, though.
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LordofDance |
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Mikul |
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Lina Wertmuller was accused of anti-feminist attitudes for Swept Away and this movie, but don't let that deter you from watching one of the best political movies of all time. "These are the ones" intones the opening sequence. The ones who ignore social and political responsibility and enable the triumph of barbarism.
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gewitter |
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Too short!
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Darbicus |
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djross |
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I have seen this movie several times, and it always has a marked emotional effect at the conclusion of the trial and during the final scene.
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sixpence |
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chiphall72 |
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jacobb1313 |
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Want to watch the least-sexy sex scene in film history? This is the place... And for a woman director, I think that's saying something. Cinematically and narratively, then, Wertmuller shows us the depths and destructive qualities of anarchy to powerful effect.
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negative |
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winds |
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formica |
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Ercan |
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lebasi |
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kneudorf |
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tonydal |
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Great script (and structure). And most deft direction indeed. Could've probably done without that litany of a prologue.
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poictesme |
85 |
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childintime |
85 |
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JooJoo |
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Everything about this movie seems to pale in comparison to the other Giannini/Wertmüller collaborations. Still entertaining.
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miss jesus |
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A beautiful, darkly funny movie. Excellent acting, awesome cinematography, and tons of emotionally ambivalent material (just like real life). I particularly enjoyed the soundtrack, and the opening credits are unforgettable.
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comanchex |
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cinema_hell |
92 |
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imdb |
80 |
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Danilolopes |
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Pickpocket |
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Absolutely brutal look at WW2. Not only is it sadistic and depressing, it also manages to be hilarious at parts (not in the camps). I wish this movie was longer as it was technically flawless and incredibly well made. Giancarlo Giannini is my new favorite actor - what a performance.
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ShogunRua |
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The single greatest acting performance in film history by Giancarlo Giannini as the titular character combined with the greatest, most haunting ending I have ever seen. A film about an awful human being who claws and bites at the muddy ground to survive, and yet, is strangely sympathetic in that regard. Amazing direction, a great mix of dark humor and tragedy, and a hell of an ensemble performance in addition to Giannini.
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salty dog |
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robertrjs |
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eveelun |
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Charming, funny, and disturbing account of a cocky hood's experience in a concentration camp. Giannini is great as a character that is both victim and perpetrator of violence and whose will to survive trumps all the ideologies consistently spewing out of his and others' mouths.
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Veterini |
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kangadoodoo |
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