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Bookmark this pageIl Diavolo in Corpo (1986)
Director: Marco Bellocchio
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From Time Out Film Guide
Bellocchio further extends his rap sheet on the stultifying bourgeoisie via an update of the Raymond Radiguet novel and its 1947 Autant-Lara adaptation. But he has a job trying to find any equivalent in the contemporary scene for the offence against Family and Country which Radiguet's lovers presented. The student hero (Pitzalis - no Gérard Philipe) embarks on an affair with Detmers, patient of his psychiatrist father and girlfriend of a left-wing extremist facing trial on terrorist charges. The familiar Bellocchio problem - the sense that his characters are being marshalled mainly in the service of some generalising thesis - is aggravated by the flat mise-en-scène. More likely to be remembered for the headline-making on-camera blow job nonchalantly administered by Detmers, than for its polemics, such as they are.Author: BBa
Cast & crew
Director: Marco Bellocchio
Cast: Maruschka Detmers, Federico Pitzalis, Anita Laurenzi, Alberto Di Stasio, Riccardo De Torrebruna full cast
Duration: 110 mins
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