Fists in the Pocket
Marco Bellocchio · 1965
Marco Bellocchio’s 1965 debut is a stark, black-and-white drama about a young epileptic man who plots to kill his dysfunctional family. Set in a provincial Italian villa, it uses rigorous composition, sparse sound, and restrained performances to explore inheritance, enclosure, and moral inertia — not as ideas, but as lived conditions.