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Buy Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion on Fandango at Home. NEW. A highly regarded Italian police inspector (Gian Maria Volonte) murders his mistress, only to become part of the homicide ...
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- Elio Petri
- R
- Gian Maria Volonté
- Synopsis
- Picture 10/10
- Audio 6/10
- Extras 8/10
- Closing
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 commanding Gian Maria Volonté) investigating a heinous crime—which he himself committed...
Having inexplicably gone unreleased on DVD in North America, Criterion brings Elio Petri’s Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicionto DVD and Blu-ray in a new dual-format edition. Both the Blu-ray and DVD versions present the film in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1. Taken from a new 4K restoration of the film, the film is given a fantastic 10...
The film is presented in 1-channel mono, Dolby Digital on the DVD and in lossless PCM on the Blu-ray. Ennio Morricone’s score sounds surprisingly robust on both, crisp and clean with outstanding fidelity and range. Unfortunately everything else in the track is flat and weak, particularly dialogue, which, like most Italian films at the time, was rec...
Criterion’s supplements offer a decent primer on the director, starting with an interview with Elio Petri from an excerpt of a 1970 episode of Le journal du cinema. The interviewer, critic Alexandre Astruc, comes off as a bit of a gas bag here, but once you get past this Petri talks about his work, questions what everyone considers normal, and ques...
I’m unsure as to why it took so long for this film to get a release but Criterion has done right by the film, packing it with a number of strong supplements and an absolutely incredible transfer. It comes with a very high recommendation. BUY AT:
Elio Petri. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion. 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 commanding Gian Maria ...
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Elio Petri’s “Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion” tells this story with a clever mixture of psychology and suspense, burrowing into the inspector’s paranoia while it rushes headlong into the investigation (something like “ Z “). Gian Maria Volonte plays the inspector just as he needs to be played: strutting before inferiors ...
An engrossing, Academy Award winning Italian film about a powerful police chief who murders his mistress, plants phony evidence and makes an anonymous call reporting the crime. The police unearth clues which point at the chief, but ignore them due to his stature.
Better known as Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, this Oscar-winning political drama stars Gian Maria Volonte as the citizen of the title, an unnamed police inspector. The story finds ...
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An engrossing, Academy Award winning Italian film about a powerful police chief who murders his mistress, plants phony evidence and makes an anonymous call reporting the crime.
