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Title: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (The Criterion Collection)
Condition: New
Description: 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 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.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES


* New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
* Archival interview with director Elio Petri, conducted by critic and filmmaker Alexandre Astruc
* Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker (2005), a ninety-minute documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers
* New interview with film scholar Camilla Zamboni
* Investigation of a Citizen Named Volontè (2008), a sixty-minute docu­mentary about actor Gian Maria Volontè
* Music in His Blood, an interview with composer Ennio Morricone from 2010, conducted by film critic Fabio Ferzetti
* Trailers
* New English sub­title translation
* PLUS: An essay by film scholar Evan Calder Williams and excerpts from a 2001 book by screenwriter Ugo Pirro
Format: Blu-ray
Director: Petri, Elio
Actor: Volonte, Gian Maria, Bolkan, Florinda, Randone, Salvo, Santuccio, Gianni, Dominici, Arturo
Rating: MPAA Not Rated
No Of Discs: 1
Release Date: 06/08/2021
Studio: The Criterion Collection
Language: English
EAN: 0715515252119
Country/Region of Manufacture: USA
Region Code: Blu-ray: A (Americas, Southeast Asia...)
Release Year: 2021

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