115 mins |
Rated
R18
Directed by Elio Petri
Starring Gian Maria Volonté, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio, Orazio Orlando
Playing as part of our POLITICAL PARANOIA FILM FESTIVAL, playing November 10th - December 2nd.
In Italian with English subtitles.
The provocative Italian filmmaker Elio Petri’s (A QUIET PLACE IN THE COUNTRY, THE WORKING CLASS GOES TO HEAVEN) most internationally acclaimed work is this remarkable, visceral, Oscar-winning thriller. Petri maintains a tricky balance between absurdity and realism in telling the Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector (a commanding Gian Maria Volontè) investigating a heinous crime—which he himself committed. Both a compelling character study and a disturbing commentary on the draconian government crackdowns in Italy in the late 1960s and early ’70s, Petri’s kinetic portrait of surreal bureaucracy is a perversely pleasurable rendering of controlled chaos.
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Playing as part of our POLITICAL PARANOIA FILM FESTIVAL, playing November 10th - December 2nd.
In Italian with English subtitles.
The provocative Italian filmmaker Elio Petri’s (A QUIET PLACE IN THE COUNTRY, THE WORKING CLASS GOES TO HEAVEN) most internationally acclaimed work is this remarkable, visceral, Oscar-winning thriller. Petri maintains a tricky balance between absurdity and realism in telling the Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector (a commanding Gian Maria Volontè) investigating a heinous crime—which he himself committed. Both a compelling character study and a disturbing commentary on the draconian government crackdowns in Italy in the late 1960s and early ’70s, Petri’s kinetic portrait of surreal bureaucracy is a perversely pleasurable rendering of controlled chaos.