THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW 50° ANNIVERSARIO NUOVO RESTAURO 4K Versione originale inglese sottotitolata in italiano (USA-UK/1975, 100 minuti di piacere assoluto)

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"The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the film with the longest-running presence in theaters in the history of cinema: released in 1975, it has still not been withdrawn from distribution even today, and continues to be a cult phenomenon whose evocative power on a sociocultural and political level remains extremely strong and necessary.

The story of Rocky Horror is a long one that, over time, has become a collective story that involves millions of people around the world. The fact that even today it is something extremely relevant and consistent with the times we are living in highlights the visionary reach of the creation imagined and realized by Richard O’Brien. A creation that stems from the necessity to give voice and space to a part of one's identity that had remained hidden and stifled by social constraints for too long.

O’Brien, who was fresh from an acting workshop in London in the early seventies, compulsively writes the script and songs, proposes the project to Jim Sharman — already a theater director of a successful work like Jesus Christ Superstar — and on June 16, 1973, at the Royal Court Theatre, the first performance of a show that would become a legend: a musical in which a young couple finds themselves inside a ghostly castle where Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry) and all his guests sing rock songs and invite the liberation from all social constraints and the total acceptance of desire.

Frank-N-Furter is the emblem of this sentiment: a man marvelously dressed as a woman, with fishnet stockings, heels, and a corset. It’s an invitation to move beyond gender binarism and to the freest expression of sexuality, in all its forms.

The show was an immediate success and begins an endless series of reruns. It moves to the United States, and after its Hollywood success, the idea of making it into a film is born. Mick Jagger, Lou Reed, and David Bowie express interest in becoming its performers, but the greatness of the Rocky Horror Show lies in never having betrayed that unique group that created the project.

Tim Curry, Richard O’Brien, Brian Thompson as the set designer, Sue Blane as the costume designer, and Sharman behind the camera; only Barry Bostwick and a young Susan Sarandon are added in the roles of the two youths who find themselves catapulted into the microcosm of the castle. A perfectly functional addition, as it amplifies the sensation of amazement and initial disorientation of the two young actors in a throbbing, excessive, noisy, free universe.

Initially, the film — an alien and unrepeatable product made with a low budget and an aesthetic inspired by Hammer’s B movies — seems to be a flop, but then the producers realize they need to engage the right audience, one that is young and feels the need to find on screen the path to their own identity.

Thus, the film is reborn thanks to nighttime screenings increasingly crowded with those who see their rebellion against a conservative, punitive, and moralistic society represented in the film. Finally, the circle completes itself, and the film returns to being theater: film screenings become a free space where people dance, sing, recite lines in chorus, and create a show within the show. Props, “shadow cast,” costumes: every Rocky Horror screening transforms into a place where everyone can be the version of themselves that they desire.

Presented by film critic Marco Di Stefano."
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