L'udienza
Regie:
Marco FerreriScenario:
Marco FerreriCamera:
Mario VulpianiMuziek:
Teo UsuelliActeurs:
Enzo Jannacci, Claudia Cardinale, Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Michel Piccoli, Alain Cuny, Daniele Dublino, Dante Cleri, Bruno Bertocci (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
Amedeo, an army officer on leave, travels to Rome genuinely intent on having a private audience with Pope Paul VI. This peaceful mission comes to the attention of a Vatican police commissioner, who sends Amedeo on a roller-coaster jaunt involving a series of absurd situations, from his arrest and harassment from officials and the Pontifical Swiss Guard, to an improbable affair with a high-class prostitute. For many months, Amedeo stumbles through Vatican officialdom, desperately searching for someone to help him. What Ferreri originally intended as a faithful filmic adaptation of Kafka’s "The Castle" became a tragicomic allegory loosely inspired by the novel, exploring the intricate labyrinth of relationships between the citizen and Power. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(meer)Recensie (1)
The Roman Catholic Church must have been quite upset about this film in 1971. Marco Ferreri delivers an outspoken critique of the Vatican system in the form of a purely Kafkaesque carousel into which a man who would like an audience with the Pope is thrown. Deliberately off-putting, but entertaining and quite funny. And I don't think Claudia Cardinale has ever been more seductive than here. [KVIFF 2024]
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