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Director:
Marco Ferreri
Writers:
Marco Ferreri (scenario) and
Sergio Amidei (scenario) ...
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Release Date:
11 September 1981 (Italy) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
After a lecture where a poem is read out to a group of bored students, the alcoholic and sex addicted poet... more | full synopsis
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Awards:
7 wins more
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La Grande Bouffe - Film Clips
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TALES OF ORDINARY MADNESS (DIDIER BECU) more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Ben Gazzara ... Charles Serking
Ornella Muti ... Cass
Susan Tyrrell ... Vera
Tanya Lopert ... Vicky
Roy Brocksmith ... Barman
Katya Berger ... Girl on beach
Hope Cameron ... Hotel proprietor

Judith Drake ... Widow
Patrick Hughes ... Pimp
Wendy Welles ... Runaway
Stratton Leopold ... Publisher
Anthony Pitillo
Jay Julien
Peter Jarvis
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Jean-Paul Boucher
Cristina Forti
Elizabeth Long
Carlo Monni ... (scenes deleted)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
101 min
Country:
Italy | France
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.78 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
Atlanta, Georgia, USA more
Company:
23 Giugno more

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Smile Away The Rain more

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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
TALES OF ORDINARY MADNESS (DIDIER BECU), 28 October 2003
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Author: Didier (Didier-Becu) from Gent, Belgium

Everyone will have their opinion about Charles Bukowski but fact is that he's the kind of author who kicks us a conscience or as he say himself "I know a lot of dogs who have more style than humans but then again I don't know that many dogs with style". His books had two main subjects : drinking and sex. So no wonder that Marco Ferreri's adaption of one Bukowski's books are like that as well. We follow the life of an author Serking (who in fact is Bukowski and being excently performed by Ben Gazarra) in where he is looking to freed himself, he finds his escapes in Cazza (Ornella Mutti) a prostitute who is fed up with life and who only likes to humilate her (beautiful) body. Ferreri directed like most of his films are, pretty cold, shocking, alternative but above all watchable, so this is no art-nonsense. How it was possible is beyond me but Ferreri couldn't have found a better actor than Ben Gazarra doing this job, one of his best roles!

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