Wir von der Straße (1959)

Wir von der Straße: Directed by Mauro Bolognini. With Rosanna Schiaffino, Elsa Martinelli, Laurent Terzieff, Jean-Claude Brialy. In Rome, small-time thieves Scinttilone and Ruggeretto steal four rifles and catch prostitutes Anna and Supplizia on the street to mislead the police. They seek the jobber Mosciarella, but he is at a funeral and gives them no attention. But Gino “Bellabella” overhears them and offers to deal the merchandise with another contact. He fails and the whores present a deaf-mute acquaintance who lives on the outskirts of Rome to buy the guns; the prostitute Nicoletta who was with the man returns to Rome with the quintet. When the youngsters propose to have sex in the middle of nowhere, the prostitutes believe that they intend to leave them there. Scinttilone, Ruggeretto, and Bellabella sneak out to the car and leave the women in the countryside. Later they discover that the women stole their money. They seek them out on the streets and fight against another gang. However, when the police arrive, the six youngsters leave the place together and head to the house of one of them, and Ruggeretto falls for the host’s sister. However, Bellabella steals the host’s bountiful wallet and Ruggeretto fights him to get the wallet and return it to the host. While they are fighting, Scinttilone flees with the wallet to the house of his girlfriend Rossana. Ruggeretto chases Scinttilone along a night of alienation, illusions, and adventures.

“This is an amazingly erotic film, and Pasolini who had a lot to do with this film including the screenplay included a lot of homoeroticism in this film. Why are we always praising the looks of the women and not the men ? In France they knew a thing or two by calling this film u0026#39; Les Garcons u0026#39; ( The Boys ) and with the help of Brialy and Terzieff plus others it truly lives up to the French title. Not noted on the Internet Movie Database is the English title u0026#39; Night Heat u0026#39; and it had an X certificate on release in the UK. Why does this matter pointing out the attraction of the male ? In films that cry out for it there has to be some pointing out of it, unwelcome though that may be to the heterosexual male and all the same sex haters who are out there. Pasolini was homosexual and there are incidents in the film that show quite clearly the happy eye of one male looking at another. I also have stopped giving spoilers but please viewers watch the male chemistry for once. It is not always just the women, beautiful though some of them are.”