BAWDY TALES
ItalyFrance, 1973
Original title: Storie scellerate
Director: Sergio Citti. Story and screenplay: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sergio Citti. Art director: Dante Ferretti. Cinematographer: (technicolor) Tonino Delli Colli. Editor: Nino Baragli. Film score: Francesco De Masi. Costume designer: Danilo Donati. Cast and characters: Francesco Citti (Mammone), Ninetto Davoli (Bernardino), Nicoletta Macchiavelli (duchess Caterina of Ronciglione), Silvano Gatti (duke of Ronciglione), Enzo Petriglia (Nicolino), Sebastiano Soldati (the Pope), Santino Citti (God the Father), Giacomo Rizzo (Don Leopoldo), Gianni Rizzo (the Cardinal), Ennio Panosetti (Chiavone). Production: Alberto Grimaldi – P.E.A, RomaLes Productions Artistes Associés, Paris. Length: 105’.
Format: 35mm. Source: CSC – Cineteca Nazionale, under licence from Park Circus Australia.
Original version. Subtitles: English
Bernardino and Mammone, two criminals waiting to be executed, tell each other some stories set in the papal Rome of the 1800s, stories of love and betrayal, abuse and malevolent jokes, which end with their ascent to the gallows.
“Sergio Citti only believes, as characters, in men and women who do not believe, like him: and who therefore live in the world as in a ridiculous masquerade, or in a desert, or, indeed, in a collapsed or collapsing city. Rome around is a chimerical and despicable nothing. The characters move there knowing it. They expect absolutely nothing from society. They arrange themselves as they can, they take from life what they can. It is their absolute and utter pessimism that allows them to be cheerful. Just like Sergio Citti. “(Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Sunday 10 April 2022, h. 7:00 pm
