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La commare secca (literally "The skinny gossip", English title The Grim Reaper) is the 1962 Italian film written and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, based on a short story by Pier Paolo Pasolini. It was Bertolucci's directorial debut at age 21.

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La commare secca
Directed by	Bernardo Bertolucci
Screenplay by	Bernardo Bertolucci Sergio Citti Pier Paolo Pasolini
Based on	La commare secca by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Produced by	Antonio Cervi
Starring	Marisa Solinas Allen Midgette Giancarlo De Rosa Alfredo Leggi
Cinematography	Giovanni Narzisi
Edited by	Nino Baragli
Music by	Piero Piccioni Carlo Rustichelli
Release date	19 September 1962
Running time	88 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Plot

The story is very similar to Akira Kurosawa's influential Rashomon, though in an interview Bertolucci denied having seen that film at the time.

The film begins with the brutal image of a prostitute's corpse on the bank of the Tiber in Rome. We then see a series of interrogations of suspects by the police, all of whom are known to have been in a nearby park at the time of the murder. Each suspect recounts his activities during the day and evening, and each narrative serves as a slice of life story. A young man tells the police that he was meeting with priests in order to get a job recommendation, though we see that he and his friends spent the time trying to rob lovers in the park. A gigolo treats both his girlfriends badly. A soldier fails in his attempts at picking up a number of women and falls asleep on a park bench. Two teenage boys share a pleasant afternoon in the company of two teenage girls but end up stealing from a homosexual man in the park.

The final flashback depicts the prostitute's murder by a man in clogs who had been interrogated previously and who is finally apprehended at a dance.

Each narrative is interrupted by a sudden thunderstorm, which in each case leads to an interlude at the prostitute's apartment as she prepares for her evening.

Critical reception

Critic John Simon called La commare secca "pure trash".[1]

References

External links

• La commare secca at IMDb
• La commare secca at AllMovie
• La commare secca an essay by David Thompson at the Criterion Collection

На других языках

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- [en] La commare secca

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[ru] Костлявая кума

«Костлявая кума» (другие переводы названия — «Костлявая»[1], «Костлявая смерть»[2]; итал. La commare secca) — первый полнометражный фильм Бернардо Бертолуччи, вышедший в 1962 году[1].

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