16. MONDO CANE, dir. PAOLO CAVARA, GUALTIERO JACOPETTI, FRANCO PROSPERI, 1962_____
you've had the universe explained to you, and you're bored with it. you've had the human body explained to you, and you're bored with it. you can call me a lot of things, but i am not bored.
let's talk about dialogue: so many brilliant things come out of johnny's mouth in naked that i wish i had taken the time to write them all down. this is a dark, funny, spare movie, my first mike leigh, and one that i don't feel totally equipped to analyze just yet. its attitude towards sex and violence? i'm not sure. but i do know, overall, that i really enjoyed it.
after seeing romance and naked in quick succession, i joked that i was done with "squalor pictures" for awhile. and then mondo cane caught my eye. the italian progenitor of the aim-to-shock "mondo" movement of filmmaking, i am drawn to see it, though i am uncertain of its quality and suspicious of its aim. one more squalor picture to close out the month. happy february!
let's talk about dialogue: so many brilliant things come out of johnny's mouth in naked that i wish i had taken the time to write them all down. this is a dark, funny, spare movie, my first mike leigh, and one that i don't feel totally equipped to analyze just yet. its attitude towards sex and violence? i'm not sure. but i do know, overall, that i really enjoyed it.
after seeing romance and naked in quick succession, i joked that i was done with "squalor pictures" for awhile. and then mondo cane caught my eye. the italian progenitor of the aim-to-shock "mondo" movement of filmmaking, i am drawn to see it, though i am uncertain of its quality and suspicious of its aim. one more squalor picture to close out the month. happy february!
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