The crow's performance is the best thing in it.
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02/09/06
The Hawks and the Sparrows (1964)
78 %
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Reviews Counted: 9
Fresh: 7
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Runtime: 88 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Pasolini's fanciful, philosophical fable about a father (Italian clown Toto) and son (Nino Davoli) whose encounter with a talking crow catapults them along a satirical journey of knowledge about the two pillars of modern Italian... [More]
Reviews for The Hawks and the Sparrows
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Top Critic
An intriguing tragicomic fable that shows two delightful innocents caught, like many Italians at the time, between the Church and communism.
05/24/03
Top Critic The allegorical messages of the film are made quite clear, and Hawks and the Sparrows does not suffer from the overbearing self-conscious pretension that renders much of Pasolini's work inaccessible to most moviegoers.
10/23/07
Top Critic
The genial, humorous and compassionate way in which these generalizations are conveyed, with the wonderful Italian clown, Toto, and Ninetto Davoli playing the father and son, is so lively and fascinating, so primitive and droll.
05/09/05
Top Critic Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Hawks and the Sparrows is a whimsical fantasy about Christianity and Marxism; the question is left open as to whether Pasolini believes in either, or neither.
10/23/04
Top Critic Pier Paolo Pasolini was a major theorist as well as a leader in the Italian avant-garde.
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