All Screwed Up
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1h 47m
Directed by Lina Wertmüller | 105 mins | 1974
Wertmüller’s wild, woolly working-class satire of the fantasy of upward mobility focuses on a cadre of Sicilian migrants living in a Milan commune as they struggle to make ends meet as kitchen employees while simultaneously avoiding unwanted pregnancies and criminal entanglements. A manic farce with an undercurrent of bitter tragedy.
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