Fresh
This is a fascinating debut by writer-director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who has scripted some interesting pix.
Variety Staff, Variety
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Accattone
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A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
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The result is uneven, but not without distinction.
Renata Adler, New York Times
Fresh
The brutality and frigid despair of this 1962 film have had a lasting impact on political filmmaking.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
The character of Accattone himself, self-destructive and conscious of his situation within a class from which he cannot escape, embodies many of the contradictions in Pasolini's lifetime of coming to terms with Marxism and Catholicism.
Time Out
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