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Les poings dans les poches

Original title: I pugni in tasca
  • 1965
  • 16
  • 1h 50m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
5.4K
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Les poings dans les poches (1965)
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Dark ComedyDrama

A young man takes drastic measures to rid his dysfunctional family of its various afflictions.A young man takes drastic measures to rid his dysfunctional family of its various afflictions.A young man takes drastic measures to rid his dysfunctional family of its various afflictions.

  • Director
    • Marco Bellocchio
  • Writer
    • Marco Bellocchio
  • Stars
    • Lou Castel
    • Paola Pitagora
    • Marino Masé
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  • IMDb RATING
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    5.4K
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    • Director
      • Marco Bellocchio
    • Writer
      • Marco Bellocchio
    • Stars
      • Lou Castel
      • Paola Pitagora
      • Marino Masé
    • 20User reviews
    • 52Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 4 wins & 5 nominations total

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    Lou Castel
    Lou Castel
    • Alessandro
    Paola Pitagora
    Paola Pitagora
    • Giulia
    Marino Masé
    Marino Masé
    • Augusto
    Liliana Gerace
    • Madre
    Pier Luigi Troglio
    • Leone
    • (as Pierluigi Troglio)
    Jeannie McNeil
    • Lucia
    • (as Jenny Mac Neil)
    Irene Agnelli
    • Bruna
    Sandra Bergamini
    Celestina Bellocchio
    • Ragazza alla festa
    Lella Bertante
    Stefania Troglio
    • Cameriera
    Gianni Schicchi
    • Tonino
    Mauro Martini
    • Ragazzo
    Tino Molinari
    Gianfranco Cella
    • Ragazzo alla festa
    Alfredo Filippazzi
    • Dottore
    • Director
      • Marco Bellocchio
    • Writer
      • Marco Bellocchio
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    6PimpinAinttEasy

    Michel Houellebecq says Hello!

    Pimpin places a call to his favorite writer Michel Houellebecq.

    Pimpin: Hello.

    Michel: Hello. Who is this?

    Pimpin: Michel, its me Pimpin.

    Michel: What do you want?

    Pimpin: Sorry to disturb. I wanted to discuss a film that I watched. I wanted to hear your thoughts on it. Its this Italian film - Fists in the Pocket by Marco Belloccio. Came out in the 60s.

    Michel: OK.

    Pimpin: What do you think about it?

    Michel: It did have a couple of nice pieces of ass. Paola Pitagora was unforgettable.

    Pimpin: Hahahha. I agree. What did you think about the film?

    Michel: Well, it was one of those films where the protagonist rebelled against his family and Catholic values. You know what I think about all that stuff, Pimpin. Nothing good came out of it. Sure, a lot of people escaped their families. And then they went and lived alone. Did drugs. Drank a lot. Individuality and personal freedom. Look at where all that got Europe now.

    Pimpin: I thought the film was quite slow.

    Michel: Its a piece of crap. But then, it was made in the 60s.

    Pimpin: I did some research on it. The film apparently predicted the student and youth riots of the late 60s in Italy.

    Michel: Hahahah. You really bought into all that crap?

    Pimpin: I know its a bit like how Indian social commentators use crappy films like Deewar to explain the 70s and 80s.

    Michel: Exactly. Its completely phony Pimpin.

    Pimpin: I'm still confused. I don't know what to think about the film. I mean, the film is quite depressing.

    Michel: Well, tell me something about the cinematography, pacing and background score. That would help us interpret it better.

    Pimpin: It was a very stark film. Morricone's score was very bleak. The score is played during all the murder and post-murder scenes. It is one of Morricone's bleakest scores. I liked the way some of the scenes were framed. Like at the party where the rebellious protagonist is sitting alone and there are a lot of people dancing. He does not even drink. He has no bad habits. But he wants to kill off his family. The pacing was slow.

    Michel: Did you identify with the film?

    Pimpin: Sort of. But like I said it was too slow. The actors were great. The director was quite successful in capturing the claustrophobic environment in which the family lives.

    Michel: Did you get married recently?

    Pimpin: Yes.

    Michel: So you are not to be trusted.

    Pimpin: Why?

    Michel: You would have liked this film a lot more during your wild bachelor days.

    Pimpin: Thats probably true, Michel.

    Michel: It is.

    Pimpin: I did think that it was a very personal film. I mean, the director is very talented. He did portray the ills of the bourgeois life and the life lived on pure instinct quite well. I don't think he was rooting for either.

    Michel: Did it work as a murder mystery?

    Pimpin: No. I think it works best as the zeitgeist of that time in Italy. But it was quite boring for me.

    Michel: OK. Is there anything else that you want to discuss?

    Pimpin: The actors were great. I mean, most of them were better than the ones in the worst Indian movies. But I would not watch another movie because anyone of them were in it.

    Michel: OK.

    Pimpin: Read about he Paris attacks. Quite scary.

    Michel: (Silence)

    Pimpin: Hello?

    Michel: Pimpin, you weren't too impressed by this film. In fact, you were bored to death. You only called me because it had an 8 rating on IMDb.

    Pimpin: You are right, Michel.

    Michel: Take care, Pimpin.

    Pimpin: Bye, Michel.

    Michel: Bye
    8athanasiosze

    7.6/10. Recommended but..

    This is a very good movie, but it's certainly not for anyone. I can't even fathom it's been created 60 years ago, it's too insane, bleak, weird. There is not even one likeable character. Some of them are not unlikeable but they're just too uninteresting to root for, so the viewer focuses on the unlikeable ones. And as a character study, this movie is exciting to watch, because the protagonists are faschinating. Alessandro, Julia and, incidentally, Augusto.

    It's like watching a car accident. You're afraid that you will see some ugly things when you're passing by, things that might haunt you but you can't help yourself and you take a look.

    Funny thing : Whereas it's bleak, it still remains entertaining and exciting. Things get nasty at some point, but it never gets unbearable to watch. I was curious to see where it goes even though i sensed that there are no happy endings here, and i am not too fond of sad ones.

    Acting is amazing. Lou Castel's acting performance is like it's coming from the future, too fresh and timeless.

    FISTS IN THE POCKET is a very good psychological drama (-thriller). Beware though, it's not for the faint of heart.
    8mikeburdick

    Dark and wonderful

    The Sixties was a time of breaking rules and exploring social themes and political ideas that weren't allowed to be expressed in the repressive Fifties. It was a Golden Era of Italian cinema, producing Antonioni's, Visconti's and Fellini's best films, along with so many gems like Olmi's "Il Posto", Germi's "Divorce: Italian Style" and Monicelli's "The Organiser." "Fists in the Pocket" stands out for its dark subject matter, which examines the mind of a sociopath.

    While this was not new ground—Clouzot's "Diabolique", Clement's "Purple Noon", Powell's "Peeping Tom" and Hitchcock's more lurid "Psycho" allowed us into the head of a killer—"Fists in the Pocket" portrays a much more nuanced character. What those films don't spend a lot of time on is the motivation behind their characters' actions, outside of their own amoral nature or perhaps some hinted trauma. In this film, while we certainly don't sympathise with the characters' actions, we clearly understand their motivations.

    The protagonist of the film is Sandro, but I'd argue that the main character is the family, since it's the family dynamic that drives all action in the film. Sandro and two of his three siblings have varying degrees of epilepsy, and all three grown children live with and care for their blind mother. There's a definite sense of claustrophobia and dread in this family, who all seem trapped by their own love for each other. Their desire to break free of their mother's control and the burden of caring for each other leads to plans being hatched and tragic consequences.

    It's quite an oddball story, almost Lynchian, but what makes the characters so utterly believable is the unpredictability of their behaviour, along with some excellent acting, particularly by Lou Castel, who allows us to see into his mind without saying a word. Add to that a soundtrack by Ennio Morricone and absolutely sublime photography—it's one of those rare films where you can frame almost every shot—and you've got one of the standout films from a standout period of filmmaking.
    10lqualls-dchin

    fists in the eye of the cinema

    When this film first appeared in the 1960s, the effect was so startlingly individual: there had never been a film as bold, as seemingly unhinged, yet as ruthlessly controlled, as this first feature by Marco Bellocchio. The wonderfully atmospheric black-and-white cinematography seemed to be developed from some dingy dream which dared to bring out into the open the most heinous family secrets, yet the utterly dispassionate fury which animated the most frenzied sequences was so freakish it was almost funny. This constant tension somehow allowed for a sneaky kind of compassion to enter the movie, so that the family dynamics, though extreme, seemed to come out of a common nightmare. FISTS IN THE POCKET remains an embattled cry for a new society, by focusing on the remnants of the diseased upper classes, yet this tale of sound and fury seems to have been made in the kind of frenzied reverie that is analogous to the stream-of-conscious jumble which William Faulkner used at the beginning of THE SOUND AND THE FURY, and to the same effect, i.e., to chart a family's disintegration as a mirror to the decaying grandeur of a dying society.
    10stededalus

    One of the best Italian movies ever!

    Marco Bellocchio directs his first full-length film, and it's already a masterpiece, a milestone in the history of Italian cinema.This movie is all about contemporary uneasiness and family crisis in today's society (only, some two decades in advance). Every time I hear of family massacres on the news, I've got to think about problematic, disturbed Lou Castel deciding to get rid of his mother and younger brother for the benefit of the eldest, embodying not only a stage of criminality, but above all a wrong philosophy, a twisted point of view about life, a failed maturity. Ennio Morricone' score is just perfect, fully successful in his aim to highlight the dramatic potential of the story. Lou Castel has never acted like this, his grimacing and his usage of the dead moments are unforgettable. The frames of the mother's death are like an howl, they "send shivers down your spine". A must-see.

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    • Trivia
      The house, the film's main location, is the house director Marco Bellocchio spent his childhood days in.
    • Goofs
      When the whole family is having dinner, Augusto is seated at one corner of the table and the mother is sitting on a side at the other corner. The cat is shown to be eating meat off the mother's plate in one scene, but in the next scene Augusto is shown picking up the cat as if was right next to him on the table. Once he removes the cat, the next camera angle again shows Augusto and the mother at opposite ends.
    • Quotes

      Alessandro: I'm a volcano of ideas.

    • Connections
      Edited into Sorelle (2006)
    • Soundtracks
      Excerpt from La Traviata
      composed by Giuseppe Verdi (uncredited)

      lyrics by Francesco Maria Piave (uncredited)

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    • Release date
      • April 18, 1966 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • Italy
    • Official sites
      • Ad Vitam Distribution (France)
      • Criterion - articles
    • Languages
      • Italian
      • Latin
    • Also known as
      • Fists in the Pocket
    • Filming locations
      • Località Punto Sotto, SP461, Bobbio, Emilia-Romagna, Italy(villa)
    • Production company
      • Doria
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 50 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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