God’s voice or man’s death in May 68. À propos of two short films of Bernardo Bertolucci and Pier Paolo Pasolini

  • Javier Suárez Harvard University
DOI : https://doi.org/10.5209/CFIT.55422

Résumé

May 1968 meant for youth a turn in their ways of representing and acting. Likewise, it meant the complex transformation of cultural, political and economic discourses of which the representation of the divinity was not an exception. This article will describe how Bernardo Bertolucci and Pier Paolo Pasolini represented the divine figure in the context of the Italian 68. As a song by Francesco Guccini states, God is dead but the desire for his resurrection still exists. The analysis focuses on two short films from the collective film Amore e rabbia (1969): "Agonia" by Bertolucci and "The sequence of the fiore di carta" by Pasolini. The analysis shows that far from wishing and declaring divinity’s their death, both authors call into question the divine existence and its relevance in a world characterized by suffering and injustice as well as by solidarity and love. It is in the contradictory interstice between love and rage that the relationship of these directors with the divinity happens.


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Biographie de l'auteur

Javier Suárez, Harvard University

Javier Suárez (Lima, Peru, 1988)

I have studied Literature at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and Philosophy in the National University of San Marcos in Peru. I have a Master’s degree in Liberal Arts from Harvard University. Currently PhD candidate of Italian and Spanish Languages and Literatures in the same University. Interested in avant-garde poetry, hybrid narratives, the intersection between theology and aesthetics, and culture management. I have published three experimental books. I am part of the pedagogic project LAVAPERU, Laboratory of Avant-garde Pedagogy (www.lavaperu.com).

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Publiée
2017-09-18
Comment citer
Suárez J. (2017). God’s voice or man’s death in May 68. À propos of two short films of Bernardo Bertolucci and Pier Paolo Pasolini. Cuadernos de Filología Italiana, 24, 207-226. https://doi.org/10.5209/CFIT.55422
Numéro
Vol. 24 (2017): Monográfico: I 500 anni delle "Regole grammaticali della volgar lingua" di Giovan Francesco Fortunio (1516)
Rubrique
Estudios literarios y culturales

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