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Published on 10-18-2020 09:29 AM
Released by: Blue Underground
Released on: October 28th, 2003.
Director: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi
Cast: N/A
Year: 1962/1964/1963/1966/1971/2003
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The Mondo Cane Collection – Movie Review:
The filmmaking duo of Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi shocked the world with the release of their 1962 documentary, Mondo Cane. Both critically acclaimed and condemned, the film did well enough at the box office to inspire the pair to keep working within the genre, and to follow up the film with a few equally, if not more, shocking follow ups. Called 'Perhaps the most devious and irresponsible filmmakers who have ever lived' by Pauline Kael of The New Yorker, Blue Underground brings us fully restored versions of five (seven if you include the alternate versions as separate entries) of their films with a ton of extra features and an all new documentary on the team that made them.
MONDO CANE:
Mondo Cane literally translates into English as 'dogs world' which is an apt title for this film, the own that spawned the so-called 'mondo' genre of shockumentary filmmaking.
What it claims to be, essentially, is a series of loosely knit incidents of a bizarre and unusual nature, masterfully edited into a structured documentary film with some narration thrown over top of it to attempt to place it into a social context or some sort.
What it is in reality is a sort of hybrid between a legitimate study of the strange world we live in, and the crassest of exploitation films. Littered with quite a bit of human brutality, very gratuitous animal violence, and what could be very easily construed as racist overtones, Mondo Cane is,
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