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Rabbia (La)

Country: Italy, Language: Italian, 104 mins

  • Director: Giovanni Guareschi; Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Writer: Giovanni Guareschi; Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Producer: Gastone Ferranti

CGiii Comment

There are those that will state, unequivocally, that Pasolini was a genius - this is a film for them.

The rest will be subjected to bleak pseudo-intellectual mutterings and an archival montage that anyone could put together with a pair of scissors.

Terminally dull.


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The(ir) Blurb...

"La Rabbia" employs documentary footage (from the 1950s) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question, Why are our lives characterized by discontent, anguish, and fear? The film is in two completely separate parts, and the directors of these respective sections, left-wing Pier Paolo Pasolini and conservative Giovanni Guareschi, offer the viewer contrasting analyses of and prescriptions for modern society. Part I, by Pasolini, is a denunciation of the offenses of Western culture, particularly those against colonized Africa. It is at the same time a chronicle of the liberation and independence of the former African colonies, portraying these peoples as the new protagonists of the world stage, holding up Marxism as their "salvation," and suggesting that their "innocent ferocity" will be the new religion of the era. Guareschi's part, by contrast, constitutes a defense of Western civilization and a word of hope, couched in traditional Christian terms, for man's future.

Cast & Characters

Giorgio Bassani as Poetry Narrator - Part one;
Renato Guttuso as Prose Narrator - Part one;
Gigi Artuso as Narrator - Part two;
Carlo Romano as Narrator - Part two;
Charles de Gaulle as Himself;
Dwight D. Eisenhower as Himself;
Yuri Gagarin as Himself;
Ava Gardner as Herself;
Nikita Khrushchev as Himself;
V.I. Lenin as Himself