Pasolini 100 years box! In 9 movies

Pasolini 100 years box! In 9 films (1961-1970)
by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Carlotta Films – November 11, 2022

Original Title :
Audio : DTS HD MA 1.0: Italian
Subtitles : French
Duration : 828' ( 1:48 p.m. )
Format : Collector - Limited Edition Blu-ray
Genre : Drama, Historical, Documentary, Comedy

Synopsis
- Accatone (1961)
In the Roman suburbs, Vittorio "Accatone" Cataldi, a petty pimp, loses his livelihood when Maddalena is arrested by the police. He then undertakes to seduce the pure and naive Stella before sending her to the sidewalk. But this meeting will change his life beyond anything he imagined...

- Mamma Roma (1962)
After several years of effort and deprivation, Mamma Roma, a colorful character from the Roman suburbs, decides to bring her son, who has become a handsome young man, back to Rome, the only place where he can be someone...

- La Ricotta (sketch of the collective film "RoGoPaG", 1963)
A well-known director is shooting a version of the Passion of the Christ. On set between takes, the actors pass the time. One of them, Stracci, who plays one of the two crucified thieves with Jesus, has only one thing in mind: to find something to eat...

- The Gospel according to St Matthew (1964)
An angel comes to announce to Joseph that his wife Mary is expecting the son of God: Jesus. Jesus approaches John the Baptist by the Jordan and is made Christ...

- Survey of Sexuality (1965)
Microphone in hand, Pasolini asks Italians about their sexuality: where do babies come from? Do women feel equal to men? Does virginity matter?...

- Birds, Big and Small (1966)


- Oedipus King (1967)
In the Italy of the 1920s, a boy is born, quickly jealous of his father. In the next scene, Laius, king of Thebes, is warned by an oracle that he will be killed by his son Oedipus, who will then marry his mother Jacoste. Laios then abandons the child in the desert. Saved by shepherds, the child is taken in by King Corinth. As an adult, Oedipus consults the oracle on the mystery of his origins. Horrified by the response, he then flees…

- Medea (1969)
Medea is the daughter of the king of the island of Colchis. Jason, at the head of the Argonauts, lands on the island to seize the Golden Fleece. Medea falls in love with Jason and, thanks to her gifts as a magician, manages to obtain the trophy. After killing Medea's brother who opposed their departure, Medea and Jason live happy years in Iolchos, then in Corinth. Until the day when Jason falls in love with Glauce, the daughter of the king of Corinth, Creon. Medea's revenge will be bloodthirsty and will leave Jason devastated...

- Notebook for an African Oresteia (1970)
Pier Paolo Pasolini arrives in an African country. He takes notes, with his camera, to prepare his next film, a transposition of Oresteia, the tragedy of Aeschylus, in today's Africa. Back in Italy, he showed his first images to a group of African students from the University of Rome. He asks them for their opinion.