A mysterious young man seduces each member of a bourgeois family. When he suddenly leaves, how will their lives change?A mysterious young man seduces each member of a bourgeois family. When he suddenly leaves, how will their lives change?A mysterious young man seduces each member of a bourgeois family. When he suddenly leaves, how will their lives change?
- Awards
- 1 win & 5 nominations
- Second boy
- (as Ivan Scratuglia)
- Interviewer
- (uncredited)
- Old Peasant
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaAt the 1968 Venice Film Festival, the film was given an award by the International Catholic Film Office. The award was withdrawn after critical remarks by Pope Paul VI. After the festival the film was confiscated by Italian police and Pier Paolo Pasolini charged with obscenity, but acquitted.
- GoofsAfter literally rolling around in a ditch with some kid she picked up on the street, the mother's designer suit remains clean and pressed.
- Quotes
Lucia, the mother: I realize now that I've never had any real interest in anything. I don't mean anything grand. Just the simple, everyday interest my husband takes in his work, or my son in his studies, or Odetta in family life. I've had nothing like that. I don't know how I lived with such emptiness, yet I did. If there was anything at all, some instinctive love of life, it has withering away - like a garden where no one ever goes. Actually, that void was filled with false and wretched values, an appalling jumble of misguided ideas. Now I see: You filled my life with a real and total interest. So by leaving, you're not destroying anything that was there before, except my chaste bourgeois reputation. Who cares about that?
- ConnectionsEdited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Seul le cinéma (1994)
- SoundtracksRequiem
KV 626
Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Russian Academy Choir and Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Courtesy of MK Records
Stamp, of course, remains the most beautiful thing on screen though Silvana Mangano as the mother gives him a run for his money. No-one really has to act; all they simply have to do is respond to Pasolini's camera and, with no real narrative structure, that's fairly easy. Sex may be Pasolin's weapon of choice but the film is quite clearly a Marxist 'fantasy' and is also very obviously the work of a gay director. I'm not so sure anymore if it's the masterpiece I thought it was all those years ago bu it stands up remarkably well and remains one of the great Italian films of its decade.
- MOscarbradley
- Mar 15, 2017
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- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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