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The āprovocativeā novel about hard-living teenagers in poverty-stricken postwar Rome, by the renowned Italian filmmaker (The New York Times).
Set during the postāWorld War II years in the Rome of the borgateāoutlying neighborhoods beset by poverty and deprivationāThe Street Kids tells the story of a group of adolescents belonging toā¦
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Pasoliniās films, Mamma Roma and Accattone, were among the reasons I decided to move to Rome in the first place.
Their blend of poetry and wretchedness chimed with my own vision of life at that time and I seized the chance to improve my knowledge of the city, of Italian and of Roman dialect, by reading his first novel Ragazzi di Vita, as soon as I arrived in the city.
Ragazzi di vita are hustlers, doomed from birth by circumstances outside their control, and I was drawn to the novelās dark non-conformist romanticism, its refusal to compromise and theā¦
From Charles' list on set in 20th century Rome.
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