RoGoPaG (1963) ( Let's Have a Brainwash: RoGoPaG ) ( Ro.Go.Pa.G. (Laviamoci il cervello) )

RoGoPaG (1963) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Let's Have a Brainwash: RoGoPaG
Alternate Title: Ro.Go.Pa.G. (Laviamoci il cervello)
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
123 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1963 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Jean-Luc Godard
Ugo Gregoretti

Written By:
Jean-Luc Godard
Pier Paolo Pasolini

Actors:
Rosanna Schiaffino ..... Anna Maria (segment 'Illibatezza')
Bruce Balaban ..... Joe (segment 'Illibatezza')
Maria Pia Schiaffino ..... Air hostess (segment 'Illibatezza')
Jean-Marc Bory ..... Husband (segment 'Il nuovo mondo')
Alexandra Stewart ..... Alexandra (segment 'Il nuovo mondo')
Orson Welles ..... The 'Director' (segment 'La ricotta')
Mario Cipriani ..... Stracci /
Good Thief (segment 'La ricotta') ..... The 'Diva' (segment 'La ricotta')
Laura Betti ..... Another diva (segment 'La ricotta')
Edmonda Aldini ..... Angel (segment 'La ricotta')
Ettore Garofolo ..... Togni (segment 'Il pollo ruspante')
Ugo Tognazzi ..... Togni's wife (segment 'Il pollo ruspante')
Lisa Gastoni ..... The son (segment 'Il pollo ruspante')
Ricky Tognazzi ..... The daughter (segment 'Il pollo ruspante')
Antonella Taito

Synopsis:

Conceived by the legendary Italian producer Alfredo Bini, the multi-director portmanteau film Let's Wash Our Brains: RoGoPaG (Laviamoci il cervello: RoGoPaG) brought together four esteemed directors of European cinema to contribute comic episodes reflective of the swinging post-"boom" era. The resulting omnibus collectively examines social anxieties around sex, nuclear war, religion, urbanisation - and the promise of a modern cinema. Roberto Rossellini's Illibatezza (Virginity) follows an airline stewardess plagued by an obsessed American tourist whose 8mm camera enables the indulgence of a personal, and solipsistic, vision of the Ideal. Jean-Luc Godard's Il nuovo mondo (The New World) takes place in an Italian-dubbed Paris beset by nuclear fallout, and wittily chronicles the changes that take place in the lives - and medicine cabinet - of a handsome young couple. Pier Paolo Pasolini's scandalous La ricotta (Ricotta, as in the curded cheese) presents the goings-on around a film shoot devoted to the Crucifixion and presided over by none other than Orson Welles (playing a kind of stand-in for Pasolini himself); it is this episode that landed Pasolini with a suspended four-month prison sentence. Lastly, Ugo Gregoretti's Il pollo ruspante (Free-Range Chicken) depicts a middle-class Milanese family flirting with the purchase of real-estate and engaging catastrophically with an antagonistic consumerist infrastructure.

This consists of four short films by different directors. Rosselini's 'Chastity' ('Illibatezza') deals with an attractive air hostess who receives the unwelcome attentions of a middle aged American. Godard's 'New World' ('Il Nuovo Mondo') illustrates a post-apocalypse world the same as the pre-apocalyptic one but for an enigmatic change in attitude in most people, including the central character's girlfriend. In Pasolini's 'Curd Cheese' ('La Ricotta'), a lavish film about the life of Jesus Christ is being made in a poor area. The impoverished people subject themselves to various indignities in the name of moviemaking in order to win a little food. The central character is hoisted up on a cross for filming, and dies there. Finally comes Gregoretti's 'Free Range Chicken' ('Il Pollo Ruspante') in which a family of the materialist culture inadvertantly illustrate the cynical, metallic voiced doctrine of a top sales theorist.

(1) The Alitalia flight attendant Anna Maria is harassed by the middle-aged American executive Joe. A psychiatrist gives an orientation to her fiancé Carlo, advising Ana Maria to behave like a slut, since the maniac is attracted by her chastity.
(2) The boy-friend of the gorgeous Alexandra is hardly sleeping, so obsessed he is for her. When she confesses that she is also in love with him, he sleeps for two consecutive days. When he wakes-up, he reads in the newspaper that there was an atomic super-explosion over Paris, but the specialists advise that without any effect in the population. However, Alessandra changes her behavior, ex-loving him, and he feels that a new world without logic and freedom may be arising.
(3) While shooting 'The Passion of Christ' in the periphery of Rome, the arrogant director, actors, actresses and cast show their lack compassion with the poor and famine Stracci.
(4) While traveling to see a field nearby a lake, a family does not resist to the appeal of the consumerism. Meanwhile, a famous professor presents to the dominant classes, procedures to increase the consumerism of ordinary people.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 21 October, 2012.

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