Country: USA
Year: 1967
Duration: 6'


A man is shaving in front of a mirror He is dissatisfied with his first strokes, then tries again, cutting himself several times. He continues like this until his face is literally covered with blood.

Biography

film director

Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese (New York, NY, USA, 1942) graduated from New York University in 1964 and debuted in feature films three years later with Who’s That Knocking at My Door? His films include Mean StreetsTaxi Driver (Golden Palm in Cannes in 1976), Raging BullGoodfellas, CasinoGangs of New York andThe Departed (Oscar for best director), making him – right from the 1970s – one of the most important American filmmakers. 

FILMOGRAFIA

filmografia essenziale/essential filmography

Who’s That Knocking at My Door? (Chi sta bussando alla mia porta?, 1967)Mean Streets (Mean Streets - Domenica in chiesa, lunedì all’inferno, 1973),Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Alice non abita più qui, 1974), Taxi Driver(id., 1976), New York, New York (id., 1977), The Last Waltz (L’ultimo valzer, 1978), Raging Bull (Toro scatenato, 1980), The King of Comedy (Re per una notte, 1983), After Hours (Fuori orario, 1985), The Last Temptation of Christ(L’ultima tentazione di Cristo, 1988), Goodfellas (Quei bravi ragazzi, 1990),Cape Fear (Cape Fear - Il promontorio della paura, 1991), The Age of Innocence (L’età dell’innocenza, 1993), Casino (Casinò, 1995), Kundun (id.,1997), Bringing Out the Dead (Al di là della vita, 2000), Gangs of New York(id., 2002), The Aviator (id., 2004), No Direction Home - Bob Dylan (id., doc., 2005), The Departed (The Departed - Il bene e il male, 2006), Shutter Island(id., 2010), George Harrison - Living in the Material World (doc., 2011).

Cast

& Credits

Director, screenplay and editor: Martin Scorsese.
Director of photography: Ares Demertzis.
Special effects: Eli F. Bleich.
Art director: Ken Gaulin.
Whiteness (biancore): Herman Melville.
Canzone: "I Can't Get Started", di Bunny Berrigan.
Cast: Peter Bernuth (uomo che si rade).
Production company: Martin Scorsese, Saul Rubin e Elaine Attias, in ass. con AgfaGaevert e Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique.
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