Ugly, Dirty and Bad
Before turning to directing, famous filmmaker Ettore Scola (Ugly, Dirty and Bad) was a regular collaborator of Antonio Pietrangeli. Having started as a film critic and screenwriter (for Visconti), Scola remains relatively unknown to French-speaking audiences, despite belonging to the group of creators who truly flourished in social comedy and the comedy of manners in the 1950s and 1960s. A rare opportunity to discover the formidable charms of his work.
Winner of the Best Director Award for Ettore Scola, 1976 Cannes Film Festival
A portrait of a family in a Roman slum where greed, amorality, and sexuality reign supreme. To get their hands on the old man’s million, the family tries to poison him. Half a kilo of rat poison in the spaghetti. Somewhere between food-bait and food-vomit, a provocation of cheerful corrosiveness.
Ettore Scola
Ettore Scola was an Italian filmmaker and screenwriter renowned for his bold and distinctive style. He seamlessly blended sharp psychological analysis, biting satire of modern societies, irony, farce, disenchantment, and melancholy with innovative narrative techniques. His films often reflect on the role of the individual within society and history, exploring both personal and collective memory in the face of time. Scola gained recognition for the tragicomedy A Drama of Jealousy (Dramma della gelosia - tutti i particolari in cronaca), for which Marcello Mastroianni won the Best Actor Award at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival. In 1976, he won the Best Director Award at Cannes for Down and Dirty (Brutti, sporchi e cattivi), a scathing satire of Roman society that cemented his status as a master of Italian comedy. The following year, he released his most celebrated film, A Special Day (Una giornata particolare), starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. Over his career, Scola directed nearly 40 films across four decades.
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