This film is part of our TOTAL DESTRUCTION! series, in which everything—mentally, physically, or emotionally—is spectacularly destroyed.
Claude Faraldo’s anarchist cult classic follows a simple laborer who leads a colorless, cyclical life. When he can no longer bear the monotony of his daily existence, he begins to rebel. In his radical rejection of all things bourgeois, he transforms his home, his life, and his behavior into that of a caveman. As his sister and mother are unwillingly drawn into his transformation, his anti-conformist revolt proves to have an infectious effect on his fellow tenants.
In this provocative, absurdist farce from the 1970s, the usually refined and impeccably composed Piccoli convincingly brings forth a radically different side of himself. All of this unfolds amid loud growls and roars—the film is almost entirely devoid of (normal) dialogue.