Amanda Films
Directed by Marco Ferreri
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Criterion Collection)
Michel Piccoli is a bored industrial designer of gas masks. He returns home after work to find his wife in bed with a headache, so proceeds to make himself a gourmet meal. Their apartment is stylishly decorated in a mod style and filled with paintings, nick-nacks and gadgets that constantly distract him. He finds an old gun in the pantry, wrapped in an old Chicago newspaper linking it to John Dillinger. He takes it apart, cleans it, and then plays with it. He watches home movies of an earlier visit with his wife and friends to a bullfight. He seduces his live-in maid. Still bored, he returns to his bedroom and murders his wife with the gun. Morning arrives and he gets in his small car and drives to a nearby swimming hole. Another incredibly pretentious Ferreri film, which has nowhere to go after making its initial points about the alienation of the modern worker. Resorts to disgusting bullfighting imagery for "art".
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