Accattone
Pier Paolo Pasolini proved himself a radical with his very first feature, in which he courted controversy by applying Catholic iconography and the liturgical music of Bach to a grim neorealist story set in Italian society’s lowest depths. Accattone (Franco Citti) is a shiftless pimp who loses his livelihood when the woman he works with is thrown in prison. Unable to support himself, the desperate Accattone sets his sights on luring a seemingly naive young woman (Franca Pasut) into sex work.
Starring Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini, Paola Guidi, Adriana Asti, Luciano Conti, Luciano Gonini, Renato Capogna, Alfredo Leggi, Galeazzo Riccardi
Watch "Accattone" from streaming services Criterion Channel, Fandor, Hoopla released in 1961. It's a drama and romance movie, and has a rating of 7.6 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.
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