The Howl / L'urlo (1968)

The film follows a man and a woman -Anita and Coso- as they travel through a surrealist landscape populated by metaphorical characters and situations. Coso rescues Anita from jail and attempts to marry her. Marriage is, for Anita, a trap–she is a symbol of anti-establishmentarianism–and so she flees from Coso, and yet with Coso, leading the two on a variety of adventures. The couple encounter a number of scenarios that are symbolic of authority: the philosopher who turns out to be a cannibal, the madhouse/prison run by an Emperor Nero figure, the town turned mad from fascism. The very structure of the film is a rejection of order. Anita and Coso play a number of roles as they travel through the world gone mad: a prostitute and an escaped felon, a picnicking couple from the fin de siecle, and a priestess and her partner.