Fists in the Pocket/dvd (1965)

Tormented by twisted desires, a young man takes drastic measures to rid his grotesquely dysfunctional family of it's various afflictions in this astonishing 1965 debut from Marco Bellocchio. Charged by a coolly assured style, shocking perversity, and savage gallows humor, Fists in the Pocket (I Pugni In Tasca) was a gleaming ice pick in the eye of bourgeois family values and Catholic morality, a truly unique work that continues to rank as one of the great achievements of Italian cinema. (Criterion)