Accattone (1961) | |
| Director(s) | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| Producer(s) | Alfredo Bini, Cino Del Duca |
| Top Genres | Drama |
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Accattone (1961) was a Drama - Black-and-white Film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and produced by Alfredo Bini and Cino Del Duca.
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The Mubi Cinematheque: Accattone (1961) (1)
By Jason Wilson on Feb 26, 2014 From Pretty Clever FilmsAccattone?is currently available on Mubi. Sign up for a free trial?here. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s first film will prove difficult for those who need a sympathetic lead character to latch onto. Vittorio eschews his own name in favor of a nickname, which is how everyone he knows refers to him. This... Read full article
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Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi:
You make me sick you dirty pimps.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: How prosaic.
Stella: So, get a job.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: What, donating blood. No-one drinks my blood. Work. Animals work.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: We're all washed-up and everybody avoids us. If we've money we're alright, if not we're nothing. We're finished because we're incapable of making it on our own. Today its better to be a thief than follow this despicable trade.
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Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: How prosaic.
Stella: So, get a job.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: What, donating blood. No-one drinks my blood. Work. Animals work.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi: We're all washed-up and everybody avoids us. If we've money we're alright, if not we're nothing. We're finished because we're incapable of making it on our own. Today its better to be a thief than follow this despicable trade.
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First Italian movie to be rated VM18. The previous rating system only including the VM16 rate was purposely changed.
This was Bernardo Bertolucci's first work in movies. He was an assistant director.
"Accattone" is Roman dialect and derives from "accattare" (to take, gain or acquire, often by illegal or otherwise unorthodox means). It indicates a beggar, and was mainly used in a non-literal sense, that is, it does not indicate a professional beggar but someone who lives of expedients: small thefts, begging, small-time frauds. It is a heavily derogatory term, and the leading character's having it as a nickname means he was held in low esteem even by other criminals (as this was usually the case for pimps, as they exploited prostitutes and gained money but did not personally risk their lives and health, unlike thieves, robbers and other members of the underworld). This word has become almost obsolete in Roman dialect nowadays.
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This was Bernardo Bertolucci's first work in movies. He was an assistant director.
"Accattone" is Roman dialect and derives from "accattare" (to take, gain or acquire, often by illegal or otherwise unorthodox means). It indicates a beggar, and was mainly used in a non-literal sense, that is, it does not indicate a professional beggar but someone who lives of expedients: small thefts, begging, small-time frauds. It is a heavily derogatory term, and the leading character's having it as a nickname means he was held in low esteem even by other criminals (as this was usually the case for pimps, as they exploited prostitutes and gained money but did not personally risk their lives and health, unlike thieves, robbers and other members of the underworld). This word has become almost obsolete in Roman dialect nowadays.
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