A shocking look at European youth by one of the inventors of the mondo film genre
Paolo Cavara is an eccentric and interesting figure in the world of Italian cinema. He made his directorial debut alongside Gualtiero Jacopetti, two of the creators of the mondo film genre, which represented the reinvention of the documentary as exploitation film. He then directed L’occhio selvaggio, a surprising reflection on reality and falsification, and would later go on to become a respected director of genre cinema. Between his experiences with Jacopetti and L’occhio selvaggio, he made I malamondo, a raw and shocking social inquiry into European youth, with all their anguish, loneliness, bravery, absurdity, idleness and iconoclast spirit. Cavara observes them with disillusionment, but without sticking to any preconceived judgements. Of course, he often gets passionate about “oddities”; but isn’t that what we like as well?
A pressing investigation into European youth and their different ways of living. From scantily-clad students of Cambridge University partying to motivational clinics animated by very desirable women, from motorcycle races where the competitors win female trophies to the first-year students of the University of Heidelberg being initiated into college life with cuts to their faces, from Adriano Celentano and his gang singing Sabato triste…
A shocking look at European youth by one of the inventors of the mondo film genre
Paolo Cavara is an eccentric and interesting figure in the world of Italian cinema. He made his directorial debut alongside Gualtiero Jacopetti, two of the creators of the mondo film genre, which represented the reinvention of the documentary as exploitation film. He then directed L’occhio selvaggio, a surprising reflection on reality and falsification, and would later go on to become a respected director of genre cinema. Between his experiences with Jacopetti and L’occhio selvaggio, he made I malamondo, a raw and shocking social inquiry into European youth, with all their anguish, loneliness, bravery, absurdity, idleness and iconoclast spirit. Cavara observes them with disillusionment, but without sticking to any preconceived judgements. Of course, he often gets passionate about “oddities”; but isn’t that what we like as well?
A pressing investigation into European youth and their different ways of living. From scantily-clad students of Cambridge University partying to motivational clinics animated by very desirable women, from motorcycle races where the competitors win female trophies to the first-year students of the University of Heidelberg being initiated into college life with cuts to their faces, from Adriano Celentano and his gang singing Sabato triste…
