| Overview: | A woman is raped outside a tenement while her neighbors tune out the screams with their TVs... an avant-garde theatre troupe enacts the Death of God and the annihilation of the human race... a smiling Italian youth cavorts on a Rome thoroughfare while bombs explode around the world... two couples discuss war and revolution in an idyllic rooftop garden... a professor leads his students in a mock debate about Vietnam that threatens to escalate into genuine bloodshed...
Like the visions of a fickle television viewer switching channels from escapist violence to newscast genocide to political debate, LOVE AND ANGER brings together the talents of world class filmmakers Academy AwardŽ winner Bernardo Bertolucci (THE LAST EMPEROR, THE CONFORMIST, LAST TANGO IN PARIS), Marco Bellocchio (DEVIL IN THE FLESH, CHINA IS NEAR), Pier Paolo Pasolini (SALO`, ACCATTONE, TEOREMA), Carlo Lizzani (THE HUNCHBACK OF ROME, THE LAST DAYS OF MUSSOSLINI) and French Nouvelle Vague pioneer Jean-Luc Godard (BAND OF OUTSIDERS, CONTEMPT) to tell five thematically linked stories of love, anger and indifference at the end of the 20th Century.
Nominated for the Golden Bear Award at the 1969 Berlin Film Festival, LOVE AND ANGER is a portmanteau film in the tradition of DEAD OF NIGHT and NEW YORK STORIES and features a one-time-only assortment of performers including Nino Castelnuovo (ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS), Catherine Jourdan (GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE), Ninetto Davoli (THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW), Andy Warhol Factory member Tom Baker (BLOW JOB) and Living Theatre founders Julian Beck (POLTERGEIST II) and Judith Malina (THE ADDAMS FAMILY).
An obscure title in the resumes of all involved, LOVE AND ANGER is a time capsule of hopes and fears during the turbulent Vietnam era.
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