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Mondo films are a subgenre of exploitive documentary films. Many mondo films are made in a way to resemble a pseudo-documentary and usually depicting sensational topics, scenes, or situations.
Mondo is a 1995 French drama film written and directed by Tony Gatlif based upon the short story by J. M. G. Le Clézio. The film debuted at the Unifrance French Film Festival in Japan 1995, and premiered in France April 17, 1996.
A mondo film (from the Italian word for "world") is an exploitation documentary film, sometimes resembling a pseudo-documentary and usually depicting sensational topics, scenes or situations.
Oct 8, 2022 · In its purest form, a mondo film is a type of travelogue documentary (“mondo” being Italian for “world”) that exposes the most bizarre, grotesque, and titillating customs of cultures around the world.
From love in the streets of Paris to death on the African plain, the acclaimed MONDO CANE masters turn their unflinching eye on all the things never before known - and never before shown - about WOMEN OF THE WORLD.
Mondo (Ovidiu Balan), a young orphaned gypsy, finds himself in France, where he scouts out potential foster families, evades the police and meets an assortment of eccentric people.
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Feb 28, 2024 · Mondo Films. The mondo film is a specific style of documentary, and the predecessor to the "shockumentary". Mondo films have a specific, often ethnocentric, and condescending approach.
