Ugly, Dirty and Bad

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Audience Member Very amusing in an offensive sort of way. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member This is an interesting film, part comedy, part social depicton of a family living in a slum in roma during the 70's! It's quite dry & bleak but somehow it's catchy and entertaining! It's a film from an other era that's for sure, when families where big & life was not turning around social recognition or facebook to say the least! It was a time of toughness & economic harship for italy and maybe for Europe in General. This film has a radical view point & is in complete osmosis with it's subject! It's a gritty & dirty film, filled with incredible chracters & too many truth about what the future holds for these unfortunate kids growing in such a bad environement! Wait for the last shot, when the image freezes, you will understand all the bitterness this film holds under the appearance of a dark comedy! Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Frankly, this outcast and good taste disturbing humor made me laugh - it surely has its hilarious moments. After few long uncut camera takes I've put big hopes in the art side of the movie but the closer to end the worse it gets. Some kind of Italian version of "Pink Flamingos" or Dutch flick "Flodder" from the 80's. Nevertheless worth to see. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Imagine Fellini's neorealistic <i>Miracolo a Milano</i> (1951) with its humor twisted into a John Waters / Marco Ferreri celebration of political incorrectness. Almost literally, there is cannibalism within this unconventional family, and Nino Manfredi acknowledges this as the "head" of them all. Scola never attempted something similar in his career as far as I'm concerned (he'd later proceed with a non-serious, self-spoofing failed romantic movie called <i>Passion d'Amore</i> [1981] with an unintentional(?) reference to Nosferatu), yet his remarkable direction propels a unique twist in any genre this rare hybrid possesses. 97/100 Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Meio cinema artístico pra mim, mas não à (C) de todo mal. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Oh my goodness. I really didn't see this coming. Scola created an overwhelmingly funny fresco of the Roman slums bursting with life amidst shacks over-the-top filled with children, parents, grandparents, nephews, cousins....Nino Manfredi is Giacinto, the family patriarch constantly aimed at hiding his savings from the rest of his numerous family. At moments, this seems like "Married With Children" taken to the extreme, except for the fact that Ed O'Neill is nowhere near Manfredi when it comes to the embodiment of Moliere's archetype of a cheap, strict,albeit funny father figure. In Scola's film, incest really is a kind of family entertainment, and sex is a no-frills thing, something one wants to get over with, without any dramatic introduction or romantic feelings. The film reduces sex to an urge which needs to be satisfied, but you're too busy laughing your ass of to actually concentrate on any kind of serious criticism. Giacinto's grotesquely mega-breasted lover is a far cry from the idealized vision of Sofia Loren's Ciociara, she's more akin to the Venus of Willendorf. He lets her move in with the family and share the bed with him and his wife(to his wife's strong reluctance). Actually, talking about "Ugly,Dirty And Bad" doesn't do this little masterpiece justice. Just see it. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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