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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by ELIO PETRI Screenplay by UGO PIRRO and ELIO PETRI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Industrial State | 6/2/1975 | See Source »

HOLLYWOOD has recently discovered that politics can be used to spice up perversity (and vice versa) in catering to mass consumer cravings: pushing old commodities in new packaging. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion works out quite skillfully this newly elaborate and sophisticated formula. Directed by Italian Elio Petri-if not for exclusively American capital (Euro International), at least with U. S. distribution (Columbia) ever in mind-the production won an Academy Award last week for the Best Foreign ( sic ) Film of 1971. Which is a pretty good tip-off that no matter how "controversial" its politics, this pictures poses...

Author: By Jim Crawford, | Title: Exploitation Movies Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion | 4/23/1971 | See Source »

Kafka's observation provides a fitting epilogue to a brilliant, complex and vagrant film, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion. Can a police chief -or any official with direct power -commit any atrocity that piques his fancy and get away with it? Italian Director Elio Petri (The Tenth Victim, A Quiet Place in the Country) raises a disturbing question that seems to defy satisfactory answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Injustice is Blind | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

...next sequence, though rather narrative and naturalistic, continues to mingle objects and images in such a way that every object demands to be read as if it were a statement. Elio Petri, the director, staged this scene in a studio furnished in modish plastic furniture and embellished with useless toys, so that the sequence builds very cleverly on the aesthetic presumptions of pop art: each object, even pieces of furniture, is a statement the way a painting is a statement: it has been designed and it signifies. Vanessa Redgrave, not quite fresh from her role as one of the objects...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: More Bourgeois Films A Quiet Place in the Country and Leo the Last premiering at the Central Square Cinema | 11/12/1970 | See Source »

...Elio Petri's A Quiet Place in the Country is a fine, unsettling ghost movie. But the spooks in this story are made of neuroses, not ectoplasm, and they haunt the mind, not the attic. Petri is crafty enough not to explain his spirits away, but clever enough at the same time to provide a rational explanation of all the freaky goings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Specters of Neurosis | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

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