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The Conformist
Why this pick
Like Bellocchio’s debut, it turns family damage and social repression into a coolly stylized study of self-destruction, with an unnerving, psychologically unstable protagonist.
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MOVIE1965 1h 45m ITA
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Its wealthy household is a sealed chamber of cruelty, sexual unease, and moral collapse—matching the feverish familial dysfunction and taboo-charged intensity of Fists in the Pocket.
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Dillinger Is Dead
Why this pick
This offers a similarly corrosive view of bourgeois domestic life, using deadpan ritual, alienation, and mounting unease rather than conventional dramatic release.
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I Fidanzati
Why this pick
More restrained but comparably intimate, it observes emotional isolation and suffocating social expectation with the same unsentimental attention to inner fracture.
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Partner
Why this pick
A fractured young man confronts a destabilizing double in this nervy, New Wave-inflected portrait of alienation, sharing Bellocchio’s volatile energy and psychological dislocation.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A young man takes drastic measures to rid his dysfunctional family of its various afflictions.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Paola Pitagora
Giulia