The Hawks and the Sparrows

Pier Paolo Pasolini was going through some stuff when he made The Hawks and the Sparrows. This comedy, complete with a delightful score by Ennio Morricone, is obviously some form of self-therapy on Pasolini’s part as he deals with the death of Palmiro Togliatti, the leader of the Italian Communist Party (an organization that kicked Pasolini out because of his homosexuality), and the seeming failure of Marxism to bring about a change in humanity required for the promised utopia on Earth. It’s...