INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION (1970) - Italian Cinema: The films of Elio Petri
Schedule
Wed, 21 Jan, 2026 at 07:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Cinema Arts Centre | Huntington, NY
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Italian Cinema: The films of Elio PetriINVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION (1970)
Wednesday, January 21st at 7:30 PM
With post film discussion hosted by Vincenzo Selleri, professor at Farmingdale State College
Elio Petri’s most internationally acclaimed work is this remarkable, visceral, Cannes & 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. (Italy, 1970, 115 mins, Italian | Dir. Elio Petri)
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