Love and Anger

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 Award® 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. NoShame Films is proud to present the film's DVD premiere in an uncut, deluxe 2-disc that includes 80 minutes of recent interviews with Marco Bellocchio and Carlo Lizzani, as well as assistant director Maurizio Ponzi and editor Roberto Perpignani.

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• love
• anger
• noshame
• films
• italian
• Bernardo
• Bertolucci

[MandyBuglet]

Am I the only one who thinks Julian Beck is absolutely beautiful in this?

Or am I crazy?

Lol, Death of God? I just thought it signified the death of a pope or something.

Shows how much I know about political theater...

-Amanda

[Scriptavolant]

Thank you very much, I was looking for the song title since months!

[longerdaysdyings]

Marie Laforet singing "Prenons Le Temps"

[Scriptavolant]

Does anybody know which is the title of the french song playing during Godard episode?

[mrshenley1980]

has any one got any visconte asbestosis movies ?

[thejumpers2a]

unique experiment in its kind, that picks up for our pleasure the best "narrators" of the last 40 years.

when the cinema makes us reflect, and it allows us an exciting sign.

[parisspleen]

this movie has been stolen

[psychopompo]

"well, I'm italian and it's true, italian movies really sucks"

what the hell are you talkin about!!!

we teach the entire world how to do movies!!!

from pasolini to leone from dario argento to fulci

the whole american cinema have a big debt with the italian genre movies!!

ask quentin about it!!!

[gypsyola]

yeah that boldi-de sica shit is for psychos like you you braindead fool.

[artemisianworm]

it's not unwatchable and actually it's a series of shorts based of parabolas from the bible