Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men with their girlfriends and the priest with a big secret, an elderly couple with their pregnant granddaughter, and engagemented couple wanting to have sex for the first time.
Ugo Tognazzi Mariangela Melato Anna Melato Gigi Proietti Paolo Stoppa Flora Carabella Jodie Foster Marco Marsili Michele Placido Franco Citti Catherine Deneuve Carlo Croccolo Cathy Marchand Ninetto Davoli Clara Algranti Julie Sebestyen McKenzie Bailey Gino Barzacchi Massimo Bonetti Gianni Rizzo Gianrico Tondinelli Franca Scagnetti Milla Johansson
The Beach Hut, In the Beach House, Un domingo en la playa, La cabine des amoureux, Пляжный домик, Strandgeflüster, La caseta de la risa, La Cabine des amoureux, Domingo na Praia, 海滨度假屋
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Watched as a collab with Enrico, who discovered while we were planning that he had vivid childhood memories of this movie. Go read their review instead!
Co-written and directed by Sergio Citti, a close associate of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Beach House is a bawdy comedy set almost entirely within a large, shared changing space at a public beach. As people come and go, their stories play out before us, each more ridiculous than the last.
Featuring a priest with two penises, an engaged couple too sunburned to bang, Michele Placido's ungovernable balls, and a pregnant, teenage Jodie Foster whose grandparents are desperate to get he hitched, the film has been described as a sharp, earthy laying bare of Italian hypocrisy.…
«te de che segno sei?»
«falce e martello»
immaginate Jodie Foster quasi quindicenne (giusto un anno dopo aver recitato in un film da quattro soldi come Taxi Driver), adesso trasponetela in una commedia all’italiana con Franco Citti e Gigi Proietti: se questo non è cinema di poesia, non saprei menzionare altro (c’è perfino Catherine / fairy / Deneuve ed anche se compare a schermo per cinque scarsissimi minuti, defworthy)
A bunch of Pier Paolo Pasolini vets including Franco Citti and Ninetto Davoli got together for this peculiar surrealist comedy written and directed by Franco's brother, Sergio, who also helmed the most obvious wannabe Pasolini film out there, Bawdy Tales. Oh yeah, and Jodie Foster's in it as an underage pregnant girl being pawned off on random guys by her grandparents, and there's a running gag about Michele Placido's balls falling out of his swimsuit. And Catherine Deneuve shows up in a dream sequence, because why not? Almost all of it takes place in a changing building at the beach, which means there's also a ton of casual nudity and lots of silly farcical situations that play out apparently in real time. Not all of it works, but it's definitely memorable.
The end of Pasolini's world. It's a funny and satiric painting about the transformation of italian people after the 60's economic boom. It's a sort of (apparently) light side of Salò.
Sergio Citti was a great underrated author.
first show with fern. visited duke friends and slammed waffle house after like a couple of champs. girl trying her best had an amazing tuesday! wonderful day! i’m such a happy boy!!
mini-collab with Sakana! Read her review!
There are a number of film images and sequences I caught on TV as a child, which disturbed me to the point that I’ve long carried a memory of them even though, in most cases, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to figure out what they actually came from, and I therefore also won’t be able revisit them. Such sequences/images include: a posh young man shooting a crossbow out of a window; a boy going to wake his grandmother from a nap only to realise she’s dead; a young man stalking an elderly woman towards whom he’s developed an unhealthy romantic obsession; two men casually stripping naked next to each other in a…
- Anvedi che piedi zozzi che c’hai!
- E queste so’ le scarpe de gomma che stingono…Pure i tui!
So Jodie Foster went from underage girl in an Italian sex farce set entirely in a beach changing room to Panic Room?
Equal opportunity nudity and more creative prosthetics than Boogie Nights. Also has a bit of a California Suite vibe, with the colorful cast revolving in and out of a single location.
C'è Jodie Foster a 15 anni che dice "fettine panate".
Cos'altro vi serve sapere per vederlo?
Sometimes I wonder if one's effort to engage with a movie maybe influences one's perception of one's own opinion of it… if this movie was in English I'd probably have watched it in the background while fiddling around on the computer etc and not thought much of it, but since I not only had to read subtitles but read them in a separate file, manually (as the ones I found weren't syncing with the Youtube source, which would've been even more annoying to follow), I kind of had to give it more attention than it maybe deserved?
Anyway, this is probably the weirdest Jodie movie of all, so on that level I guess I'm glad I gave it as much…
