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Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES Newsletter 4 Dear Friends! THE WORLD’S GONE CRAZY!! “PASOLINI’S ANGER” (La Rabia di Pasolini) is a documentary film that will be presented during TWO RIVERSIDES Festival. It is the reconstruction of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s remarkable masterpiece from 1963 directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci. “Why is the life a misery, fear, pain? To answer these questions, I made this unchronological, sometimes even illogical film… a film that is still in accordance with my political convictions and poetical feelings”- Pasolini said. In the autumn of 1962, having made the provocative “Accattone!” and “Mamma Roma”, he was working on “RoGoPaG” when he received a proposition from Gastone Ferranti, a producer, to make a film based on short fragments of MONDO LIBERO film chronicles. Out of 90 000 meters of film stock he chose a sequence of footage scenes concerning recent events, mixed the sound and wrote the script. The fragments of poems and prose that appeared in the film were read out by Georgio Bessani and Renato Gattuso respectively. When Pasolini was editing the film, the producer decided to entrust a task to reformulate one part of the film to Giovannino Guareschi, Pasolini’s opponent. At first Pasolini didn’t want to agree on that involuntary cooperation, but finally he decided to remove one part of his material to give place to Guareschi’ episode. In 1963 “ANGER” , a two-part film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovannino Guareschi, was finished. It’s a kind of a political essay and a poetical film at the same time, or rather a poem about anger expressed in pictures. About Pier Paolo Pasolini’s anger against bourgeoisie, barbarism, intolerance, bias, triviality, decency. The anger against the persecution criticisms of his work. Giuseppe Bertolicci’s ‘PASOLINI’S ANGER’ is an attempt to reconstruct a part of Pasolini’s work, that part which was entrusted to Giovannino Guareschi. “We thought that following the original Pasolini’s film after so many years can be very interesting and it can be a tribute to the author” – says Bertolucci. The world premiere of the film was on last year’s festival in Venice. For the first time Polish viewers will have the opportunity to see it on FAF TWO RIVERSIDES, in the Documentary section, along with: - Jose Padilha’s ‘GARAPA’ (premiere), a shocking film about hunger in Brazil; this documentary had its premiere on this year’s festival in Berlin; - Pedro Urano’s ‘ROYAL ROAD OF CACHAÇA’, a poetic film trying to find the meaning of cachaça, a Brazilian vodka, in Brazilian culture. It won the first prize on last year’s festival in Rio de Janeiro for the best documentary film; - Ermanno Olmi’s ‘MOTHER EARTH’ (premiere)- about slow food; it had its European premiere in Berlin. - Farnand Melgar’s ‘FORTRESS’- about the immigrants in Switzerland, the winner of the Golden Leopard in Locarno. Andruch Waddington’s ‘MARIA BETHANIA – A PEBBLE FROM ARUANDA’ will make the context for ‘bossa nova’ films, and Mads Baastrup/Sonjia Vesterhold’s science- fiction documentary entitled “THE STAR DREAMER. PAWEŁ KŁUSZANCEW’ will be the context for retrospective of this outstanding Russian director. The festival audience will also have a chance to see the best documentary films from Planete Doc Review (THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD, BLIND LOVES, THE AGE OF STUPID, RECIPES FOR DISASTER). |