A Violent Life
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: February 9, 2016
- Originally Released: 1970
- Label: One-7 Movies
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Laurent Terzieff & Franco Citti | |
Performer: | Anita Sanders, Ninetto Davoli & Lamberto Maggiorani | |
Directed by | Sergio Citti | |
Edited by | Nino Baragli & Carlo Reali | |
Screenwriting by | Pier Paolo Pasolini & Sergio Citti | |
Cinematography by | Mario Mancini |
Entertainment Reviews:
60%
TOMATOMETER
Total Count: 5
DP Claire Mathon's lensing keeps pace with the action without overdoing the handheld dynamic, giving the film a compelling physical vitality that happens to be one of [Thierry] de Peretti's key strengths.
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Variety
The violence plays like frontier justice but what constitutes the frontier keeps evolving.
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Screen International
Rating: C+ --
A Violent Life has conjured up a judiciously shot drama that nonetheless feels as distant and at arm's length as the island and the generation it portrays.
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The Film Stage
Rating: B+ --
The complexity of A Violent Life will be difficult for many viewers, but this true-to-life moral intricacy is also what makes it such a valuable portrait of Corsica.
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The Playlist
There's so much going on in A Violent Life that it's difficult to follow the who's, what's and why's of the plot, while de Peretti seems to know his material so well that he's unable make it clear for the rest of us.
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Hollywood Reporter
Product Description:
Bandiera (Laurent Terzieff) and Rabbino (Franco Citti) are two dirt-poor brothers that live on the outskirts of Ostia, a small city by the seaside not far away from Rome. Haunted by their childhood memories the two still suffer from the presence of their long dead abusive father, an anarchist who married a devout catholic girl. One day the brothers find a beautiful girl sleeping in a field and take her to their rundown home. Soon the jealousies between Bandiera and Rabbino spark violently and break up their brotherly bond.
Written by Pier Paolo Pasolini and directed by Franco Citti, Ostia is an enchanted and dark ballad that unfortunately anticipated the poet's sad demise a few years later. Considered by many critics and scholars the best film that Pasolini never directed, it features Citti's keen eye and ear for the stern reality of the roman sub proletariat. Stylized and brutally honest and yet moving and lyrical, A Violent Life is a forgotten masterpiece of Italian cinema. A film far ahead of its time and ready to be discovered by a new generation of film lovers.
Written by Pier Paolo Pasolini and directed by Franco Citti, Ostia is an enchanted and dark ballad that unfortunately anticipated the poet's sad demise a few years later. Considered by many critics and scholars the best film that Pasolini never directed, it features Citti's keen eye and ear for the stern reality of the roman sub proletariat. Stylized and brutally honest and yet moving and lyrical, A Violent Life is a forgotten masterpiece of Italian cinema. A film far ahead of its time and ready to be discovered by a new generation of film lovers.
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