Released Date:
1959-10-26
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
90 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (3148 Reviews)
Director:
Louis MalleGenres:
DramaLouise de Vilmorin (dialogue)
Bored with her husband, bored with her polo-playing lover, will the middle-aged heroine go away with the young man who gave her a lift that day when her car broke down on the way back to her country estate from a weekend with her lover in Paris?
Released Date:
1963-02-19
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
122 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (1002 Reviews)
Jean-Luc Godard (segment)
Ugo Gregoretti (segment)
Pier Paolo Pasolini (segment)
Roberto Rossellini (segment)
This consists of four short films by different directors. Rosselini's 'Chastity' ('Illibatezza') deals with an attractive air hostess who receives the unwelcome attentions of a middle aged American. Godard's 'New World' ('Il Nuovo Mondo') illustrates a post-apocalypse world the same as the pre-apocalyptic one but for an enigmatic change in attitude in most people, including the central character's girlfriend. In Pasolini's 'Curd Cheese' ('La Ricotta'), a lavish film about the life of Jesus Christ is being made in a poor area. The impoverished people subject themselves to various indignities in the name of moviemaking in order to win a little food. The central character is hoisted up on a cross for filming, and dies there. Finally comes Gregoretti's 'Free Range Chicken' ('Il Pollo Ruspante') in which a family of the materialist culture inadvertantly illustrate the cynical, metallic voiced doctrine of a top sales theorist.
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