Fists In The Pocket (BLU-RAY)
Tormented by twisted desires, a young man takes drastic measures to rid his grotesquely dysfunctional family of its various afflictions, in this astonishing 1965 debut from Marco Bellocchio. With its coolly assured style, shocking perversity, and savage gallows humor, Fists in the Pocket (I pugni in tasca) was a gleaming ice pick in the eye of bourgeois family values and Catholic morality, a truly unique work that continues to rank as one of the great achievements of Italian cinema.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- On the DVD: Restored high-definition digital transfer
- On the Blu-ray: New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Marco Bellocchio, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Interviews from 2005 with Bellocchio, actors Lou Castel and Paola Pitagora, editor Silvano Agosti, critic Tullio Kezich, and filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci
- New interview with scholar Stefano Albertini (Blu-ray only)
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Deborah Young and (with the DVD) an interview with Bellocchio
Cover by Neil Kellerhouse and Peter Grant