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My Hustler
66' 35” (63' 42” at 25 fps), 16mm, sound, black & white
Original English Version with removable Italian subtitles and Italian Version
The plot of My Hustler is of an essential simplicity: a good-looking fellow is a guest in a beautiful house in Long Island and lays sunbathing on a beach. We then learn that he is a male prostitute for a rich intellectual who requested him to an agency specialised in the sector: it is 1964! A lot of time has elapsed that sleeping and immovable object of desire which we saw for long hours in Sleep . Eroticism here is much greater: Paul America (this is the name of the young man) is contended and longed for by all the characters in the story: the young and handsome man even becomes the stakes of a bet taking place among the contenders, two men and a woman, who use all their weapons in order to gain his favour. This bet also becomes a game leading to massacre: the desire for young Paul is present like an obsession during the whole film. The camera is almost fixed upon the young man both during the first part taking place outdoor in a glittering beach and during the second part completely shot in a very small bathing room where the image of the protagonist is even doubled due to a mirror, and the scene is full of violent narcissism. On the outside attention is constantly caught by the young man laying on the beach even if he never speaks nor ever listens to the empty and intellectual-like fighting he creates (with his erotic drive) among his friends. "The claustrophobia of the long scene in the bathing room exasperates the erotic morbidity that takes place between the two boys and at the same time it represents a documentary of male coquetry which has never been equalled in the history of cinema…" Apart from describing the rituals of seduction and erotization "My Hustler" is also a ruthless portrait of a time and of a category of intellectuals and maybe it is not by chance that Jonas Mekas, in a memorable critic on "Movie Journal" of 1966 defined the film as one of the first examples of reality cinema (or filmed reality) by saying that he experienced situations very similar to the ones described in the film which involved intellectuals and men of letters he knew starting from Truman Capote himself...
Mario Zonta - Andy Warhol Foundation
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My Hustler
66' 35” (63' 42” at 25 fps), 16mm, sound, black & white
Original English Version with removable Italian subtitles and Italian Version
The plot of My Hustler is of an essential simplicity: a good-looking fellow is a guest in a beautiful house in Long Island and lays sunbathing on a beach. We then learn that he is a male prostitute for a rich intellectual who requested him to an agency specialised in the sector: it is 1964! A lot of time has elapsed that sleeping and immovable object of desire which we saw for long hours in Sleep . Eroticism here is much greater: Paul America (this is the name of the young man) is contended and longed for by all the characters in the story: the young and handsome man even becomes the stakes of a bet taking place among the contenders, two men and a woman, who use all their weapons in order to gain his favour. This bet also becomes a game leading to massacre: the desire for young Paul is present like an obsession during the whole film. The camera is almost fixed upon the young man both during the first part taking place outdoor in a glittering beach and during the second part completely shot in a very small bathing room where the image of the protagonist is even doubled due to a mirror, and the scene is full of violent narcissism. On the outside attention is constantly caught by the young man laying on the beach even if he never speaks nor ever listens to the empty and intellectual-like fighting he creates (with his erotic drive) among his friends. "The claustrophobia of the long scene in the bathing room exasperates the erotic morbidity that takes place between the two boys and at the same time it represents a documentary of male coquetry which has never been equalled in the history of cinema…" Apart from describing the rituals of seduction and erotization "My Hustler" is also a ruthless portrait of a time and of a category of intellectuals and maybe it is not by chance that Jonas Mekas, in a memorable critic on "Movie Journal" of 1966 defined the film as one of the first examples of reality cinema (or filmed reality) by saying that he experienced situations very similar to the ones described in the film which involved intellectuals and men of letters he knew starting from Truman Capote himself...
Mario Zonta - Andy Warhol Foundation
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Lenght: 01:03:51
Video: XviD at 1071kb/s 25fps
Audio: Mp3 at 128kb/s CBR