Elio Petri

The provocative Italian filmmaker Elio Petri’s 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 Fistful of Dollars’ Gian Maria Volonté, in a commanding performance) investigating a heinous crime—which he committed himself. Both a […]

Elio Petri’s savage, Palme d’Or-winning takedown of capitalism and industrial corruption. Gian Maria Volonté (A Fistful of Dollars), stars as Lulu, a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown, in one of provocative filmmaker Elio Petri’s (Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion) most politically charged films. Too tired to sleep with his girlfriend, cut […]