Dillinger Is Dead
Dillinger è morto (original)
In this magnificently inscrutable late-sixties masterpiece, Marco Ferreri, one of European cinema’s most idiosyncratic auteurs, takes us through the looking glass to one seemingly routine night in the life of an Italian gas mask designer, played, in a tour de force performance, by New Wave icon Michel Piccoli. In his claustrophobic mod home, he pampers his pill-popping wife, seduces his maid, and uncovers a gun that may have once been owned by John Dillinger—and then things get even stranger. A surreal political missive about social malaise, DILLINGER IS DEAD (DILLINGER È MORTO) finds absurdity in the mundane. It is a singular experience, both illogical and grandly existential.
Starring Michel Piccoli, Anita Pallenberg, Gino Lavagetto, Mario Jannilli, Annie Girardot, Carole André, Adriano Aprà, Carla Petrillo, Gerard Malanga
Watch "Dillinger Is Dead" from streaming services Criterion Channel, Kanopy released in 1969. It's a drama and crime movie, and has a rating of 6.9 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.
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