Directed by Elio Petri
My rating: 3.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Franco Nero is a successful artist in Milan. He creates abstract, impressionistic works and his girlfriend Vanessa Redgrave sells them for ridiculous prices. One day he gets tired of the city and wants to find a place in the country. He ends up buying a dilapidated mansion. He hears stories of a young girl who once lived there and was supposedly killed by the Nazis. He becomes obsessed with her and slowly goes insane. Intriguing but occasionally pretentious film beautifully shot by Luigi Kuveiller. A perceptive study of alienation in modern society, particularly the dehumanizing impact of pornography, refocused through the lens of an artist. The soundtrack by Ennio Morricone is appropriately modernistic and perhaps his best.
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