Marco Bellocchio - I Pugni in tasca (1965)

Tormented by twistwed desires, a young man takes drastic measures to rid his grotesquely dysfunctional family of its various afflictions in this astonishing 1965 debut film from Marco Bellocchio. Charged by a coolly assured style, shocking perversity, and savage gallows humor, 'I pugni in tasca' was a gleaming ice pick in the eye of bourgeois family values and Catholic morality, a truly unique work that continues to rank as one of the great achievements of Italian cinema. (-DVD cover)



Made in 1965 and still considered by many to be Bellocchio's masterpiece 'I Pugni in tasca' foreshadows the years of student protest in a family tragedy bordering on horror. This seminal first feature catapulted the twenty-six-year-old Bellocchio to fame and introduced a controversial director who, along with Bertolucci and Pasolini, would become a leading cultural figure for a generation of Italians. 'I Pugni in tasca' is one of the reasons people still remember Italian cinema as a great and powerful force. (-Deborah Young / Variety)



'I Pugni in tasca' describes a young provincial man's annihilating rage -the very title implies pent-up teenage anger and resentment- encompasses matricide, fratricide, and incest, mocks the institutions of church and family, and generally raises hell. It dropped like a bomb on the quiet world of mid-sixties Italian cinema, still under the spell of a humanistic, postwar neorealism. (-Deborah Young / Variety)



Radical and grotesque, fast-paced and sarcastic, it left all who saw it breathless. Premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival, it was loved by young critics, loathed with equal passion by the Catholic establishment. (-Deborah Young / Variety)



Alessandro, a young epileptic with paranoid inclinations, decides to relieve Augusto, the only sound brother, from the burden of a numerous family plagued with hereditary diseases. After a first aborted attempt, the dreadful series of accidents/murders is started by pushing the blind mother into a ravine. Then comes the turn of Leone, the idiotic brother. Will Alessandro be able to bring to completion his obsessive project ? (http://imdb.com/title/tt0059619/plotsummary)



Claustrophobia within a family. On a rural estate live three brothers, a sister, and their blind, religious mother. Three of the siblings have epilepsy, the fourth and eldest, Augusto does not, and he's about to break away from the family: he's in love with Lucia and planning to move to the city. Augusto's sister Guilia clumsily tries to frustrate the lovers, while another brother, Alessandro, hatches a far-reaching plot to free himself of his mother's demands and other family responsibilities, to give Augusto the wherewithal to leave with Lucia, and, perhaps, to pursue incestuous impulses with his sister. Does anything stand in his way? (http://imdb.com/title/tt0059619/plotsummary)



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. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0059619/usercomments)



The actors are all excellent but Lou Castel's performance as the frustrated, crazed, death obsessed brother is mesmerizing. One can't take one's eyes off of him. And even though it was made in 1965, the film feels contemporary, mainly because of its refusal to amplify and exploit it shocking aspects or the characters' foibles to heights of schlock or melodrama. Plus, the fluid direction gives this morbid drama (which could have easily been heavy and static) a deceptively "normal" quality which works perfectly and adds even more to all of the characters' sad state of mind. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0059619/usercomments)


The film is equally claustrophobic and expansive; claustrophobic with the (very) tight interiors and the family drama that (like one of the characters of the film wants to do) makes you want to break free and escape at all cost; and expansive because of the Italian countryside that surrounds these doomed characters. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0059619/usercomments)


Ennio Morricone's score is characteristically moody & chilling and complements the film perfectly. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0059619/usercomments)


"Fists in the Pocket" is a very earthy, grounded, morbid & blunt portrait of a doomed family! A must-see for those who love "pure" cinema. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0059619/usercomments)



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