Appunti per un film sull’India
Notes for a Film on India
Pier Paolo Pasolini,
1968,
33’
A documentary that was shot on the occasion of Pasolini's trip to postindependent India to do research on a proposed film. It features his reflections on the country's economic and class-based hardships, as well as on its modernization and Westernization.
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“Painful state of excitement on arrival. The Gateway to India. A section, phantasmagoric in nature, of Bombay. An enormous crowd dressed in towels. Moravia goes to bed: my exhibition of the intrepid spirit in venturing into the Indian night.”
Pier Paolo Pasolini1
- 1Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Scent of India (London: Olive Press, 1984), 9.
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