GDM Music releases the complete OST of Ennio Morricone
from the movie directed in 1965 by Marco Bellocchio I Pugni
In Tasca.
The atmosphere of love and death of this story is rendered
perfectly in music by Ennio Morricone who is successful to
create refined rarefied and magical sounds, sometimes mysterious
and obsessing, for soprano voice, harp,strings, celesta, harpsychord,
bells, (the author has also recourse to the classic Dies Irae),
an intense requiem for harpsychord and strings alternated
to lounge music of the period (jazz, blues, twist) that breaks
the painful mood of the story.
Besides five stereo mixes, eight inedit tracks in mono have
been added from the complete original master tapes.
This CD also includes music from the second and last collaboration
of Ennio Morricone with Marco Bellocchio that was for La Cina
E' Vicina released in 1967.
For this movie Morricone has written very few music where
the agitated main theme, main titles, (here presented with
a very rare stereo mix) mainly performed by percussions with
military style where a bizarre theme is developed (with variations
of the italian national hymn) that it reprised after a short
and delicate passage of piano and strings in Ninna Nanna 1968,
a suspended and poetic piece of classic kind for strings,
celesta and with grotesque muted brass. |
i pugni in tasca
Considered one of the great lost classics of Italian neo-realism,
this bleak drama was the debut feature of filmmaker Marco
Bellocchio.
Lou Castel stars as Alessandro, an epileptic from a large
family of similarly afflicted siblings, headed up by a blind
matriarch (Liliana Gerace).
The only healthy member of the family is Alessandro's brother
Augusto (Marino Mase), who wants to marry his girlfriend but
refuses to saddle a bride with the enormous burden of helping
to care for his ailing relatives.
Sympathetic to Augusto's plight, Alessandro decides to murder
the rest of the family so as to set his brother free and assure
him of an inheritance.
After hurling his mother into a ravine and drowning his little
brother, Alessandro returns home to suffer a seizure.
Long hailed by critics and historians as an unjustly ignored
film, I Pugni in Tasca (1965) was one of 15 titles selected
by New York's Museum of Modern Art for its Second Act retrospective
of post-war Italian cinema in the spring of 2000.
Cast:
Lou Castel, Marino Masé, Paola Pitagora, Liliana Gerace,
Pier Luigi Troglio
Director:
Marco Bellocchio |
