Capital Celluloid 2019 - Day 85: Tue Mar 26

Love and Anarchy (Wertmuller, 1973): Barbican Cinema, 8.35pm


This screening is introduced by writer and curator Isabel Stevens. It is part of the Lina Wertmuller season at the Barbican. Full details here.

Chicago Reader review:
Passion, in its various forms, doesn't mix with politics, and nowhere is this clearer than in Lina Wertmüller's marvelous 1973 study of a simple peasant (Giancarlo Giannini) with a mission to assassinate Mussolini, and of the two ladies of Rome's most decadent and sumptuous brothel who innocently (yet destructively) manipulate his anarchist ardor—and ultimately set up his destruction. A giddy, Felliniesque portrait of human feelings building to a fever pitch. With Mariangela Melato, Eros Pagni, and Lina Polito.

Don Druker


Here (and above) is an extract.

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