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- Managing to craft films that were both wildly entertaining and harshly critical of modern capitalist society, he sliced deep into the heart of the Italian zeitgeist and of universal human psychology.
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Sep 2, 2014 · Elio Petri’s films are popular art for the people. Depicting Italy in the 70s, they still feel very modern and relevant, a lens through which to see reality, to enable us to feel social injustices and provoke a call to arms.
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Jun 19, 2003 · One of the most politically charged filmmakers to emerge in the European cinema of the 1960s, Elio Petri has often been overshadowed by such contemporaries as Bertolucci and Pasolini. Ripe for reexamination, his sleek oeuvre bears witness to a rare ...
Eraclio Petri (29 January 1929 – 10 November 1982), commonly known as Elio Petri, was an Italian film and theatre director, screenwriter and film critic. The Museum of Modern Art described him as "one of the preeminent political and social satirists of 1960s and early 1970s Italian cinema".
Jun 21, 2011 · The evolution of political film-making is part of this history and the little-remembered Elio Petri is its most important director. Petri fused political analysis and film art more successfully and comprehensively than any director before or after.
Jun 22, 2011 · By the end of the 1960s significant numbers of people had recognized the critical content of Elio Petri’s films. Most importantly, critical perspectives on western imperialism and on Soviet-style communism had ripened everywhere. For much of a new generation on the political Left, Marxian analysis transcended the simplistic formulas of ...
Mar 17, 2020 · Over his nearly 30 year career, Petri made films with some of the all-time great Italian cinematographers, such as Gianni Di Venanzo (8 1/2, La Notte, The 10th Victim), and Carlo Di Palma (Blow-Up, Divorce Italian Style, The Assassin), but his work with Luigi Kuveiller on the “Trilogy of Neurosis” films (Investigation of a Citizen Above ...
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion. 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 ...
