Accattone / Comizi D'amore (Region B) Neo Noir With its fascinating flawed characters

With its fascinating flawed characters

Anthony Quayle

Flint and Lord James D'Ampton (Hugh Grant) find themselves tangling with a bizarre cult that worships a monstrous serpent that was believed to have been slain by one of D'Ampton's ancestors

yet inexperienced "Flossie" (Marie Forså) to him with the intention to gently and softly seduce her

it became the first of his works to be adapted for the big screen and

Accattone / Comizi D'amore (Region B) Neo Noir With its fascinating flawed charactersThe debut feature of Italian filmmaker novelist poet provocateur Pier Paolo Pasolini (Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom; The Gospel According to Matthew; The Decameron), Accattone rocked the cinema world with its depictions, at once raw and elegant, of the underside of Roman street life and, in the process, seemed to announce a new direction for Italian films: a neo neorealism. On the mean streets of Rome, Accattone's eponymous pimp (played by Franco