- Also Known As:
- Let’s Have a Brainwash
- Year:
- 1962
- Countries:
- Predominant Genre:
- Comedy
- Directors:
- Jean-Luc Godard; Ugo Gregoretti; Pier Paolo Pasolini; Roberto Rossellini
- Outstanding Performances:
- Rosanna Schiaffino; Alexandra Stewart; Orson Welles; Ugo Tognazzi
- Premiss:
- Four short films by different directors.
- Themes:
- Christianity
- Communism
- Emotional repression
- Mankind
- Materialism
- Narcissism
- Pornography
- Sexism
- Sexual Repression
- Snobbery
- Solipsism
- Stereotyping
- White culture
- White guilt
- White supremacy
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Unknown
- Review Format:
- DVD
[Let’s Have a Brainwash]
As usual with portmanteau films, this is something of a mixed blessing.
Essentially preoccupied with praising Communism and attacking sexism, mediocrity & the Catholic Church, this movie makes its points well – especially in the final segment – but descends into rhetorical ideology and formalistic denunciations of both materialism and Christianity.
These attacks leave no room for characterization and basic human warmth from the performers - who are merely required to mouthe the lines rather than make them come alive. Even worse given the quality on offer, particularly Rosanna Schiaffino, Alexandra Stewart, Orson Welles & Ugo Tognazzi.
Man is the subject of this film, not any particular man, hence the sacrilegious section on the Passion that so upset an overly sensitive Vatican - it shows Christ as more human than divine.
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