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St. Michael Had A Rooster

1971, Movie, NR, 90 mins

St. Michael Had A Rooster: Review

Despite this movie's bracing, polemical vigor, the film's creators, the Taviani Brothers, seemed more at home with their simpler humanist masterworks, PADRE PADRONE (1977) and NIGHT OF THE SHOOTING STARS (1982), in which political purposefulness takes a back seat to universal emotions. In ST. MICHAEL HAD A ROOSTER, reflections on social upheaval, the evanescence of revolutionary zeal, and the changing face of antifascism are mounted on a soap box in cogent but coolly distanc... read more leave a comment