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Bookmark this pageThe Audience (1972)
Director: Marco Ferreri
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From Time Out Film Guide
A laboured satire of Vatican bureaucracy, this tells a would-be Kafkaesque story of a supplicant's vain attempts to get to the Pope. Only the devoutest Catholics will be able to stay awake to be outraged. As usual, Ferreri avoids the clichés of 'realism', but his mixture of high gloss, caricature, and studied seriousness is even less adequate here than in The Last Woman. TR.Author:
Cast & crew
Director: Marco Ferreri
Producer: Franco Cristaldi
Cast: Alain Cuny, Enzo Jannacci, Claudia Cardinale, Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli full cast
Duration: 111 mins
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