L'urlo

An experimental, mad, pop-art comedy, a typical product of scathing left-wing non-conforming film circles of its time, i.e., counter-cultural motifs of rebellion against the bourgeois world (represented here by the husband of the main character, from whom she runs away at the beginning of the film to experience a liberating romance with an unruly adventurer; romance as a road-movie across cultural and social symbols) mix with mockery aimed at their own ranks and an ironic ending, in which the suffocating marriage eventually takes place only because the bride died in a previous scene. "Stupid policemen. Your order is an order of logic, and it is always false, like morality, like coherence." Indeed, do not expect coherence, because Brass dissolves it in itself in a postmodern way and reveals the nonsense of every coherence through continuous, chaotic swarming of editing and fragments of action, analogies, and gags. That montage is simply brilliant and noble, even though it mediates "just" a satirical comedy - how Brass connects characters and events across time and space with just a wave of the editing scissors! (19.10.2016)