La Commare Secca (The Criterion Collection) (DVD) Rick Jason Vic Morrow

Description: Further DetailsTitle: La Commare Secca (The Criterion Collection)Format: DVDCondition: NewNumber Of Discs: 1Release Date: 06/01/2010Actors: Rick Jason, Vic MorrowDirector: Sutton Roley, Tom Gries, Bernard McEveety, Vic Morrow, Ted PostAudio Language: Unqualified (DTS ES 6.1), ItalianRuntime: 1 hour and 33 minutesRegion Code: DVD: 1 (US, Canada...)Studio: Criterion CollectionSubtitle Language: EnglishCertificate: MPAA Not RatedDescription: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Giancarlo de Rosa. When a prostitute is found dead near the Tiber River, the police interview suspects who were in the vicinity at the time. But as they tell their stories, the images on the screen diverge from the tales they tell. The riveting directorial debut of Bernardo Bertolucci! In Italian with English subtitles. 1962/b&w/100 min/NR/widescreen. AMAZON Signaling the arrival of a gifted young filmmaker, La commare secca (or The Grim Reaper) marked the promising debut of Bernardo Bertolucci, who would attain world-class prominence in less than a decade. Having served as director's assistant on his friend Pier Paolo Pasolini's successful debut Accattone the previous year, Bertolucci was only 21 when he co-wrote and directed this impressively structured drama (based on a story by Pasolini) about a murdered prostitute and the police interrogation of several potential suspects. Bertolucci has denied the influence of Kurosawa's Rashomon (which he hadn't yet seen), but that film's prismatic structure is echoed here in the chapter-like retelling of circumstances surrounding the murder, as described through the suspects' unclear memories, conflicting testimonies and subtly hidden agendas. Punctuating the mystery with scenes of the prostitute's final hours, Bertolucci defies his directorial assignment (Pasolini had declined the job, and Bertolucci was hired to approximate Pasolini's visual style) with an ever-moving camera that tracks each suspect through a variety of ominous Roman locations. As he explains in an exclusive interview on this Criterion DVD, Bertolucci was the youngest person on the set, and extremely anxious as a first-time director, but his talent speaks for itself. La commare secca was not a hit with critics, but it's a remarkable debut by any standard, fully vindicated by Bertolucci's subsequent greatness. --Jeff ShannonDVDs ARE REGION 1 UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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