Salvatore Piscicelli
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Salvatore Piscicelli (1948) was the director of a
"Neapolitan Trilogy"
of material and moral misery
that began with
Immacolata e Concetta (1979),
the story of a lesbian affair in a working-class environment
(two women meet in prison and fall passionately in love, but one betrays the other with a man and is killed by her when she becomes pregnant),
continued with
Le occasioni di Rosa (1981), the portrait of a life without scruples, willing to do anything, but with a final surge of pride, an amoral, cold, and detached vision of degradation (an opportunistic girl in search of an easy life turns to prostitution, gets involved with a criminal and spendthrift, lover of a wealthy cocaine-using client, agrees to marry the rich man to give him the child of the criminal she is carrying, but ultimately has an abortion, ruining everything),
and completed by
Blues metropolitano (1985),
a story of ordinary mediocrity and squalor surrounding a rock festival, which seems to reflect the moral decay brought by the "Americanization" of Naples.
Regina (1987): A parable of decay and self-destruction for a middle-aged actress who, having fallen in love with a young pornographic model, is pushed morbidly into the bed of her agent-friend, and, madly jealous, allows herself to be stabbed. Quartetto (2001) was the first Italian film to follow the rules of the "Dogme 95" movement.
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