Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion

Investigation of a Citizen Above SuspicionThe 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.Spine #682SPECIAL FEATURESNew 4K digital film restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-rayArchival interview with director Elio Petri, conducted by critic and filmmaker Alexandre AstrucElio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker (2005), a ninety-minute documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakersNew interview with film scholar Camilla ZamboniInvestigation of a Citizen Named Volontè (2008), a fifty-minute documentary about actor Gian Maria VolontèMusic in His Blood, an interview with composer Ennio Morricone from 2010, conducted by film critic Fabio FerzettiTrailersNew English subtitle translationPLUS: An essay by film scholar Evan Calder Williams and excerpts from a 2001 book by screenwriter Ugo PirroNew cover by Fred Davis