• Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)

    Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)

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    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 Fistful of Dollars’ Gian Maria Volonté, in a commanding performance) investigating a heinous crime—which he committed himself.

    Both a penetrating character study and a disturbing commentary on the draconian crackdowns by the Italian government in the late 1960s and early ’70s, Petri’s kinetic portrait of surreal bureaucracy is a perversely pleasurable rendering of controlled chaos.

    Region B Blu-ray: Australian compatible

    Special Features

    • New 4K digital film restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
    • Archival interview with director Elio Petri, conducted by critic and filmmaker Alexandre Astruc
    • Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker (2005), a ninety-minute documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers
    • New interview with film scholar Camilla Zamboni
    • Investigation of a Citizen Named Volontè (2008), a fifty-minute documentary about actor Gian Maria Volontè
    • Music in His Blood, an interview with composer Ennio Morricone from 2010, conducted by film critic Fabio Ferzetti
    • Trailers
    • New English subtitle translation
    • PLUS: An essay by film scholar Evan Calder Williams and excerpts from a 2001 book by screenwriter Ugo Pirro