Flesh, Mind and Spirit TV Takeover curated by Alejandro González Iñárritu – Fists in the Pocket by Marco Bellocchio

Pauline Kael of the New Yorker described 1965 Marco Bellocchio’s first film as, “one of the most astonishing directorial debuts in the history of movies.” The deadpan precision of Fists in the Pocket—a teenager plans the murders of his entire family—functions as social satire and displays the pitch-perfect control that signaled Bellocchio’s style and was a break from the melodramatic melancholy of Neorealism. “It was like nothing else that came before it. It’s a dysfunctional family show in a grammar that he invented, and it affected me physically,” marvels Alejandro González Iñárritu.

Fists in the Pocket by Marco Bellocchio will be screened at the Fondazione Prada on Saturday 16th January at 9pm.

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