Padre Padrone (1977)
Country: IT
Technical: col 113m
Director: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Cast: Omero Antonutti, Saverio Marconi, Nanni Moretti
Synopsis:
An illiterate Sardinian shepherd boy breaks free of the clutches of his domineering father and joins the army to secure himself an education.
Review:
Freely based on the subject's autobiography, the Tavianis' Palme d'Or winner spins a sobering tale of rural ignorance and centuries-old subservience. Beyond neo-realism in having little sense of redeeming humanity to alleviate the misery, this filmed autobiography stunned audiences with its picture of near-contemporary Europe as a place where civilization still yields to atavism. At the same time there was an almost Brechtian injection of fantasy in some of its strokes: the participation of the book's author, a talking goat, the riot of rutting that the boys' chicken fucking unleashes. Its success at Cannes thrust the film-making brothers into the critical limelight for a few years.
Country: IT
Technical: col 113m
Director: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Cast: Omero Antonutti, Saverio Marconi, Nanni Moretti
Synopsis:
An illiterate Sardinian shepherd boy breaks free of the clutches of his domineering father and joins the army to secure himself an education.
Review:
Freely based on the subject's autobiography, the Tavianis' Palme d'Or winner spins a sobering tale of rural ignorance and centuries-old subservience. Beyond neo-realism in having little sense of redeeming humanity to alleviate the misery, this filmed autobiography stunned audiences with its picture of near-contemporary Europe as a place where civilization still yields to atavism. At the same time there was an almost Brechtian injection of fantasy in some of its strokes: the participation of the book's author, a talking goat, the riot of rutting that the boys' chicken fucking unleashes. Its success at Cannes thrust the film-making brothers into the critical limelight for a few years.
Country: IT
Technical: col 113m
Director: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Cast: Omero Antonutti, Saverio Marconi, Nanni Moretti
Synopsis:
An illiterate Sardinian shepherd boy breaks free of the clutches of his domineering father and joins the army to secure himself an education.
Review:
Freely based on the subject's autobiography, the Tavianis' Palme d'Or winner spins a sobering tale of rural ignorance and centuries-old subservience. Beyond neo-realism in having little sense of redeeming humanity to alleviate the misery, this filmed autobiography stunned audiences with its picture of near-contemporary Europe as a place where civilization still yields to atavism. At the same time there was an almost Brechtian injection of fantasy in some of its strokes: the participation of the book's author, a talking goat, the riot of rutting that the boys' chicken fucking unleashes. Its success at Cannes thrust the film-making brothers into the critical limelight for a few years.