The Phantom of Liberty / Le fantôme de la liberté (1974)
Comedy
A series of surreal sequences that critique morality and society in a stream of consciousness style.
Starring: Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi, Michel Piccoli, Adriana Asti, Julien Bertheau, Paul Frankeur
Director: Luis Buñuel
Pasolini (2014)
Biography | Drama
A look at the final days of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini and the confusion surrounding his death in 1975.
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Maria de Medeiros, Riccardo Scamarcio, Adriana Asti, Giada Colagrande, Valerio Mastandrea
Director: Abel Ferrara
Prima della rivoluzione / Before the Revolution (1964)
Drama | Romance
The study of a youth on the edge of adulthood and his aunt, ten years older. Fabrizio is passionate, idealistic, influenced by Cesare, a teacher and Marxist, engaged to the lovely but bourgeois Clelia, and stung by the drowning of his mercurial friend Agostino, a possible suicide. Gina is herself a bundle of nervous energy, alternately sweet, seductive, poetic, distracted, and unhinged. They begin a love affair after Agostino's funeral, then Gina confuses Fabrizio by sleeping with a stranger. Their visits to Cesare and then to Puck, one of Gina's older friends, a landowner losing his land, dramatize contrasting images of Italy's future. Their own futures are bleak.
Starring: Adriana Asti, Francesco Barilli, Allen Midgette
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
The Best of Youth / La meglio gioventù (2003)
Drama | Romance
An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers, from the 1960s to the 2000s.
Starring: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Adriana Asti, Sonia Bergamasco, Fabrizio Gifuni, Maya Sansa, Valentina Carnelutti, Jasmine Trinca
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana
Accattone (1961)
Drama
Pasolini's first film is a painfully realistic study of a pimp in Rome. Vittorio Accattone has never worked a day in his life, and has apparently made a good living prostituting his female companion, Maddalena. But her arrest begins his decline; hungry, he begs from churches and even visits his estranged wife and son. When Stella, a lovely and unbelievably innocent peasant worker, enters his life, Accattone tries to find a way, honest or not, to bring back good fortune…
Starring: Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini, Paola Guidi, Adriana Asti
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
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