Capital Celluloid 2025 — Day 205: Sat Jul 26

Accattone (Pasolini, 1961): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 3.10pm

This is part of the 'Censored to Restored' season and also screens on July 9th.

Chicago Reader review:
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s first film is neo-neorealism, set in the slums and back alleys familiar from De Sica and Fellini but directed with a cold dispassion that belongs to Pasolini alone. Accattone is a thief and pimp who tries to go straight, fails, and eventually kills himself in a meaningless accident. The brutality and frigid despair of this 1962 film have had a lasting impact on political filmmaking.
Dave Kehr

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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