One of the handful of films that found Pier Paolo Pasolini sustaining a merrier mode of cultural assault, Hawks And Sparrows (Uccellacci E Uccellini) features Italy's popular comic actor Tot (known to cinephiles as the star of Roberto Rossellini's Dov' la liberta...?) and Pasolini regular Ninetto Davoli in a picaresque fable that lampoons politics, religion, and the legacy of neorealism.A crow gifted with the power of speech accompanies wandering duo Tot and Ninetto on a trail that leads to their roles as Franciscan friars who preach to the literal hawks and sparrows,... before returning in time to gaze upon slum-dwellers, Danteist dentists, itinerant actor-hippies, and, ultimately, the state of the modern world. [show more]
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Pier Pablo Pasolini's film, starring the famed Italian comedian Toto, is structured as a parable within a parable - a father and son wander the country accompanied by a talking crow, who espouses Marxist philosophy. This narrative encloses another, the religious conversion of hawks and sparrows by two of St Francis' followers.
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