Films I Watched This Week — Jun 23–29, 2025
Saint Omer (2022)
The Station Agent (2003)
Fists in the Pocket (1965)
Fists in the Pocket is a perversely blasphemous satirical thriller about madness and murder that remains just as shocking as it did back when it was released in 1965. The film centers on a young man suffering from epilepsy, who plots the murders of the members of his dysfunctional family, made up of his three brothers, one sister (with whom he shares an incestuous attraction) and his blind, widowed mother. Fists in the Pocket was a savage full frontal assault on the bourgeois family and the values of Catholic morality, a truly unique work that continues to rank as one of the great achievements of Italian cinema.
Bugsy (1991)
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