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Cat: FLIES 4538. Rel: 20 Jun 22
Soundtracks

Side 1 - Track 1. Girl With The GunSide 1 - Track 2. Shake BaleraSide 2. Rapimento In Sicilia

French director Jean Luc Godard - a founding father of the French New Wave cinema movement - once quipped that all you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun. Incredibly active throughout the 1960s and 70s (arguably his heyday albeit he's still making great flicks today), his message was clearly heard around that time by Mario Monicelli over the border in Italy, who made The Girl with the Pistol, a 1968 comedy that tackles some meaty themes head on (bride kidnapping, honour killing).

An Oscar-nominee (Best Foreign Language Film), leading lady Monica Vitti walked away with a David di Donatello for Best Actress (the Academy of Italian Cinema awards) and rightly so. The movie is great and well worth digging out, partly because the soundtrack is so mesmerising. Just three tracks are here, but three great ones. Mixing swinging rock R&B, strange Frontierland scores and trippy, acid rock, it's a surreal ride everyone should take.