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      "title": "Film Review: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto, 1970)",
      "body": "![(source: tmdb.org)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/aQZ0VU7Isznuup9vTPvWfDUA760.jpg)\n\nThe early 1970s marked a zenith for politically charged European cinema, particularly in Italy, where filmmakers dissected the rot festering beneath the Christian Democrat-led First Republic with surgical precision. From Francesco Rosi’s investigative exposés to the absurdist satire of Dario Fo, Italian auteurs transformed national disillusionment into art. Yet few works captured the era’s paranoia and institutional decay as blisteringly as Elio Petri’s *Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion* (1970), a psychological thriller that merges Kafkaesque bureaucracy with searing social critique. 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Having led investigations for years, he plants evidence implicating Augusta’s estranged gay husband (Mario Foschi) and Antonio Pace (Sergio Tramonti), a young anarchist and her lover, in her death. Yet his true aim is not evasion but hubristic validation: later he deliberately leaves clues pointing to himself, daring the state to indict its own enforcer. The investigation becomes a perverse game, exposing not just his guilt but the judiciary’s complicity. Colleagues dismiss evidence, witnesses are coerced, and dissenters tortured—all to preserve the myth of institutional infallibility. Petri’s genius lies in framing this not as aberration but routine, a bureaucracy where fascist-era tactics endure under democratic veneers.  \n\nA committed Marxist, Petri trains his ire not on Italy’s right-wing politicians but the unearthed machinery propping them up: the police, judiciary, and security apparatus. Volonté’s Dottore, a careerist who boasts of “purifying the state,” personifies this shadow governance. In chilling monologues, he extols the virtues of torture and sneers at due process. His colleagues, meanwhile, employ Orwellian tech—early computers cataloguing dissidents, wiretaps silencing critics—to sanitise repression.  \n\nYet Petri avoids didacticism, leavening the nihilism with caustic humour. A subplot involving the Dottore’s sycophantic subordinate (Aldo Rendine), who disowns his Communist cousin to curry favour, skewers the moral compromises fuelling authoritarianism. Even sharper is the segment featuring plumber (Salvo Randone) whom Dottore confesses the crime and instructs to report him to police. His terrified retreat—realising the Dottore’s identity—epitomises the citizenry’s complicit silence. Ennio Morricone’s score amplifies this irony, juxtaposing discordant strings to underscore the farce of “justice.”  \n\nThe film’s corrosive power rests on Gian Maria Volonté’s titanic performance. Best known as spaghetti western villains, Volonté here crafts a more insidious evil: a bureaucrat whose banality masks bottomless depravity. With reptilian poise, he oscillates between icy control—lecturing underlings on “the art of interrogation”—and sweaty desperation as his god complex unravels. \n\nVolonté’s Dottore is no cartoon fascist but a disturbingly recognisable archetype: the careerist who conflates duty with sadism, loyalty with obedience. His charm—seductive smiles, paternal pats on the back—makes the tyranny palatable, even to victims. When he grovels before superiors, begging for validation, Petri unveils the cowardice beneath the cruelty. It’s a career-defining turn, blending intellect, menace, and pathos to humanise inhumanity.  \n\nReleased amid the aftershocks of 1968’s global unrest, *Investigation* struck a nerve. Critics lauded its daring, awarding it the Cannes Grand Prix and an Oscar. Yet the film’s flaws, while minor, linger. Petri’s grip slackens in the final act, as the Dottore’s meltdown veers into expressionist excess. The climax feels unmoored from the prior realism, its surrealism clashing with the script’s surgical precision. Volonté’s descent into madness, though visceral, risks diluting the critique into melodrama.  \n\nHalf a century on, *Investigation*’s relevance has only deepened. Petri’s vision of a state weaponising technology, media, and legalism to shield its crimes anticipates modern authoritarianism—from algorithmic surveillance to “fake news” gaslighting. 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      "body": "![(source: tmdb.org)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/e6wUmlbzG7NNsKdkMUd3JimAOTI.jpg)\n\n\nThe annals of cinema are littered with films that once commanded adulation and influence, only to diminish in stature as cultural sensibilities evolve. Jacques Deray’s *Borsalino* (1970), a lavish French gangster epic, epitomises this trajectory. Hailed upon release as a European precursor to *[The Godfather](https://peakd.com/film/@drax/retro-film-review-the-godfather-1972)* (1972), the film fused star power, period opulence, and underworld bravado into a box-office triumph. Yet, viewed through a contemporary lens, *Borsalino* emerges as a curious artefact—a work whose stylistic swagger and magnetic leads cannot fully offset its narrative superficiality and dated sensibilities. A fascinating but flawed relic, it encapsulates the paradox of a film simultaneously of its time and undone by it.  \n\nThe genesis of *Borsalino* lies in the ambition of Alain Delon, then at the zenith of his fame as France’s preeminent screen icon. Inspired by Eugène Saccomano’s 1959 book *The Bandits of Marseille*—a non-fiction account of real-life mobsters Paul Carbone and François Spirito, who dominated interwar Marseille’s underworld and laid the groundwork for the French Connection heroin network—Delon envisioned a Hollywood-style biopic. Seeking to elevate the project, he courted Jean-Paul Belmondo, the rakish face of the Nouvelle Vague, as his co-star. Their pairing, akin to merging Clint Eastwood with Marcello Mastroianni, promised combustible chemistry. Yet the project’s transition from page to screen was fraught: when news of the adaptation reached Marseille, locals with ties to Carbone and Spirito’s legacy issued thinly veiled threats. Delon, heeding these “suggestions,” enlisted screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière to fictionalise the protagonists, transforming them into Roch Siffredi and François Capella. This pivot not only sidestepped the unsavoury reality of the duo’s WWII collaboration with the Nazis but also liberated the narrative from biographical constraints, allowing a mythic, if sanitised, reinvention.  \n\nSet against the sun-bleached backdrop of early 1930s Marseille, *Borsalino* chronicles the rise of Roch Siffredi (Delon) and François Capella (Belmondo), two small-time hoodlums whose rivalry over lover Lola (Catherine Rouvel) evolves into a bromantic criminal partnership. Their ascent—from rigging horse races to monopolising the city’s fish markets—unfolds with the swagger of a picaresque adventure rather than a gritty noir. Deray’s direction prioritises aesthetic grandeur over narrative depth, framing their exploits within Art Deco cafés and bustling harbours, Claude Bolling’s jaunty jazz score evoking the era’s decadent charm. The titular Borsalino fedoras, emblematic of the duo’s dapper menace, became a sartorial sensation, symbolising the film’s cultural cachet.  \n\nYet the period veneer is intermittently compromised: hairstyles betray the late 1960s, and the script lacks psychological nuance. The women, notably Rouvel’s Lola, are relegated to decorative roles, their agency stifled by the film’s macho ethos. Political critique is neutered; scenes of corrupt elites consorting with gangsters gesture toward systemic rot but never interrogate it, rendering the film a visually sumptuous yet intellectually hollow spectacle.  \n\nThe film’s enduring allure rests largely on its leads. Delon, all icy stoicism and lupine grace, embodies Siffredi as a man of few words and fewer scruples—a Redford-esque enigma. Belmondo, by contrast, channels Newman’s Sundance Kid, infusing Capella with roguish wit and physical bravado. Their dynamic, echoing the buddy formula of *[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid](https://peakd.com/aaa/@drax/retro-film-review-butch-cassidy-and-the-sundance-kid-1969)* (1969), elevates even the thinnest scenes: a shootout, scored to Bolling’s buoyant brass, crackles with camaraderie, while their shared romantic entanglements—played for farce—highlight their contrasting personas. Yet their chemistry, though electric, cannot fully compensate for the script’s deficiencies, their characters remaining archetypes rather than fully realised individuals.  \n\nWhere *Borsalino* falters is in its execution. Jacques Deray, later a stalwart of Euro-crime thrillers, directs with a dispassionate efficiency, prioritising glamour over tension. The pacing sags in the second act as Siffredi and Capella’s empire-building grows repetitive, their clashes with rival bosses Poli (André Bollet) and Marello (Arnoldo Foà) lacking visceral stakes. The script, allegedly coloured by Delon’s real-life entanglement in the Marković affair (a scandal involving his bodyguard’s murder), leans into the actor’s off-screen notoriety but shies from moral complexity. Michel Bouquet’s lawyer Rinaldi, a serpentine fixer, hints at institutional corruption but serves merely as a plot device.  \n\nThe film’s finale, however, delivers a poignant swerve. Capella’s abrupt assassination—a betrayal by their own ranks—and Siffredi’s subsequent isolation inject unexpected tragedy. This denouement, both sentimental and stark, resonates as a rare moment of emotional weight, hinting at the deeper film *Borsalino* might have been. Deray’s decision to linger on Delon’s face—a mask of fury and desolation—suggests a self-awareness otherwise absent from the narrative.  \n\n*Borsalino* triumphed in Europe, its panache and star wattage eclipsing its flaws. Yet it faltered in North America, where Paramount’s hopes for a Gallic *Godfather* collided with cultural disconnect. The film’s afterlife is tinged with irony: Delon and Belmondo’s off-screen feud precluded a reunion, rendering the 1974 sequel *Borsalino & Co.* a diminished solo venture.  \n\nDespite its uneven legacy, *Borsalino* achieved a peculiar form of immortality. The film left an indelible impression on young Italian model Rocco Antonio Tani, who adopted “Rocco Siffredi” as his stage name, launching a legendary career in pornography. 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      "body": "![(source:  imdb.com)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/akfOG6V3SFkc2FkMEz39C1kH40y.jpg)\n\nIn the pantheon of cinematic aphorisms, “less is more” remains a mantra too often ignored by even the most revered auteurs. Jean-Pierre Melville, the undisputed grandmaster of French crime cinema, fell prey to this oversight with his 1970 opus *Le Cercle rouge* (*The Red Circle*). A film of undeniable craftsmanship, it teeters under the weight of its own ambitions, its 140-minute runtime testing the patience of audiences even as its icy formalism mesmerises. Though lauded as a genre classic, *Le Cercle rouge* exemplifies the perils of excess, its glacial pacing and narrative indulgence diluting the taut precision that elevated Melville’s earlier works like *[Le Samouraï](https://peakd.com/aaa/@drax/retro-film-review-le-samourai-1967)* (1967) to masterpiece status.  \n\nMelville opens the film with a fabricated Buddhist proverb: “Siddhartha Gautama drew a circle with a piece of red chalk and declared: ‘When men, even unknowingly, are to meet one day, whatever may befall each, on that day they will inevitably come together in the red circle.’” This pseudo-profundity sets the stage for a tale of fate-bound antiheroes—a quartet of criminals and lawmen entangled in a meticulously plotted heist. Yet the quote’s portentousness feels unearned, a pretentious veneer for what is, at its core, a conventional caper narrative. Unlike *Le Samouraï*, where existential minimalism amplified the protagonist’s alienation, *Le Cercle Rouge*’s metaphysical posturing distracts rather than deepens, straining to imbue its characters with a gravitas the script never fully substantiates.  \n\nThe film orbits four archetypal figures: Corey (Alain Delon), a freshly paroled thief enlisted by a corrupt prison guard for a Parisian jewellery heist; Vogel (Gian Maria Volonté), a fugitive murderer who stows away in Corey’s car after escaping custody; Jansen (Yves Montand), a disgraced ex-cop and alcoholic marksman recruited for his technical genius; and Mattei (Bourvil), the tenacious inspector hellbent on recapturing Vogel. Their paths converge with clinical inevitability, yet Melville prioritises mood over motive, reducing his characters to ciphers in a meticulously choreographed ballet of crime.  \n\nDelon’s Corey epitomises Melville’s fetishisation of stoic masculinity—all razor-sharp cheekbones and impenetrable silence—but offers no interiority beyond a grudge against Rico (André Ekyan), a former associate who usurped his girlfriend (played by Anna Douking). Volonté’s Vogel, though electrifying in his feral intensity, remains similarly opaque, a force of chaos with neither backstory nor rationale. Only Montand’s Jansen escapes this emotional vacuum, his haunting portrayal of a man haunted by sobriety—particularly a hallucination sequence where spectral creatures invade his bed—hinting at depths the script otherwise neglects. Bourvil, best known for comic roles, delivers the film’s most nuanced performance as Mattei, blending weary determination with eccentric charm (his affection for his cats a rare humanising touch). Serbian director Slobodan Šijan would later homage Mattei in his crime comedy *The Strangler vs. The Strangler* (1984), a testament to the character’s enduring intrigue.  \n\n*Le Cercle rouge*’s pièce de résistance is its 20-minute heist sequence, a wordless, music-free symphony of precision. Filmed in real time, the scene revels in the minutiae of the crew’s method: Jansen’s laser-guided dismantling of alarms, Corey’s steady pilfering of gems, Vogel’s vigilant lookout. The absence of faces (the men don masks) and score amplifies the tension, transforming the act into a hypnotic meditation on professionalism. Yet this brilliance arrives halfway through the film, preceded by an hour of lethargic setup—police interrogations, underworld negotiations, Santi (François Périer)’s nightclub machinations—that mirrors the heist’s deliberateness without its urgency. Melville’s refusal to differentiate pacing between mundane conversations and high-stakes action renders the film’s rhythm monotonous, its stylistic austerity curdling into tedium.  \n\nCinematographer Henri Decaë bathes the film in a palette of steely blues and ashen greys, evoking the chiaroscuro of classic noir despite its colour format. The influence of John Huston’s *[The Asphalt Jungle](https://peakd.com/film/@drax/retro-film-review-the-asphalt-jungle-1950)* (1950) looms large, particularly in the clinical depiction of criminal logistics and the moral ambiguity of its ensemble. Yet Melville’s aesthetic choices—while undeniably striking—often feel at odds with the narrative. The near-absence of non-diegetic music (a hallmark of his work) amplifies the alienation but exacerbates the glacial pace, while Éric Demarsan’s sporadic jazz score, though fitting in Santi’s nightclub, jars against the otherwise austere soundscape.  \n\nAt 140 minutes, *Le Cercle rouge* demands a patience increasingly alien to modern audiences reared on kinetic storytelling. Yet its flaws extend beyond length: the rushed finale, which sees the crew’s meticulously planned heist unravel through a contrived melodrama of betrayal and retribution, clashes tonally with the preceding rigor. Mattei’s abrupt triumph feels unearned, a concession to convention at odds with Melville’s signature fatalism.  \n\n*Le Cercle rouge* remains a film of contradictions—a work of breathtaking artistry hampered by its own grandiosity. Melville’s command of mood and composition is peerless, his cast uniformly magnetic, and the heist sequence a masterclass in suspense. 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      "body": "![(source:tmdb.org)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/cExcM4sGwWMDMvRjQVc4055JfQ2.jpg)\n\n\nThe Soviet cinematic genre later dubbed the “Ostern” or “Red Western” by Western observers—action‑adventure narratives set in the remote, often desert, frontiers of the young USSR during the Civil War—found its golden age in the decades following the Second World War. Yet its roots dig deeper into the silent era, and one of the earliest, arguably the very first, exemplars of this distinctly Soviet genre is Yakov Protazanov’s 1927 silent film *The Forty-First*. While later works like Mikhail Romm’s *[The Thirteen](https://peakd.com/hive-166847/@drax/film-review-the-thirteen-trinadtsat)* (1937)—explicitly described in critiques as an early Ostern—would codify the tropes of a desperate band holding out against overwhelming odds in a harsh landscape, Protazanov’s film presents a more intimate, psychologically nuanced prototype. It blends the adventure of survival with a tragic romance, set against the exotic backdrop of Central Asia’s deserts and the Aral Sea, thereby establishing a template that future “Red Westerns” would both follow and simplify.\n\nProtazanov himself is something of an unsung hero of early Russian and Soviet cinema. He was a pre‑revolutionary commercial director who emigrated after the Bolshevik takeover but returned during the comparatively liberal New Economic Policy (NEP) period. His *Aelita*, though a flawed and loosely‑adapted science‑fiction piece, remains immensely influential for its Martian fantasy sequences and its subversive, almost cynical, view of revolutionary zeal. Protazanov was not burdened by the official Soviet ideology that would later rigidify under Stalin, nor was he driven by the formalist experiments of contemporaries like Eisenstein. He was, at heart, a storyteller attracted to compelling narratives and exotic settings. *The Forty-First* offered him precisely that: an adaptation of Boris Lavrenyov’s 1924 novel, written while the author—a futurist poet who had served as an armoured‑train commander in Turkmenistan—was editing the Red Army newspaper *Krasnaya Zvezda*. Lavrenyov drew on his own Civil War experiences in Central Asia, as well as the character of a young female soldier named Anya Vlasova who had pestered him to publish her poetry. This blend of authentic military detail and poetic sensibility translates directly into the film’s unique tone.\n\nThe plot is set in what is now Kazakhstan during the Civil War. A Red Army detachment, led by Commissar Yevsukov (Ivan Shtraukh), breaks out of encirclement but must trek through a waterless desert to reach the Red stronghold of Kazalinsk on the Aral Sea. Among them is Maria “Maryutka” (Ada Voytsik), a crack shot who has already killed forty enemy soldiers. After a sandstorm depletes their water, they stumble upon a caravan carrying a single passenger: White Lieutenant Vadim Nikolaevich Govorukha‑Otrok (Ivan Koval‑Samborsky), a courier bearing a vital message from Admiral Kolchak to General Denikin. Capturing him, Yevsukov decides to deliver the prisoner to headquarters. With the aid of sympathetic local herdsmen, they reach a coastal village where only one boat is available for the final leg; Maryutka is ordered to escort Otrok. A sudden storm shipwrecks them on a small, deserted island. There, stripped of the war’s ideological framework, they struggle to survive, gradually shedding their enmity and succumbing to an irresistible physical attraction. Their life together becomes an idyllic, almost utopian interlude—a Robinson Crusoe fantasy mingled with the melodrama of Romeo and Juliet. This idyll shatters when a White aeroplane spots them and a rescue party arrives. As Otrok runs towards his comrades, Maryutka, in a moment of instinctive political duty, shoots him dead. The film closes on her mourning over the body of her lover, the “forty‑first” kill that now carries a profoundly personal cost.\n\nProtazanov’s direction is competent within the technical limits of the era. The Central Asian locations—reportedly authentic, with locals employed as extras—lend the film a palpable sense of place and an ethnographic value rarely seen in Soviet cinema of the time. The depiction of Muslim herdsmen and peasants as sympathetic, ordinary people is noteworthy, offering a precious document of a way of life soon to be altered by collectivisation. However, the film is not without the flaws characteristic of silent cinema. The acting, particularly in the early scenes, tends towards broad, gestural overacting. The editing is occasionally clumsy, and the second half, after the shipwreck, feels somewhat rushed; the transition from enmity to romantic devotion could benefit from more nuanced development. These are, however, minor quibbles in a film that excels in its atmospheric setting and the potent simplicity of its central conflict.\n\nWhere *The Forty-First* truly distinguishes itself is in its daring defiance of what would later become the dogmas of Socialist Realism. Made during the NEP period, when artistic control was relatively lax, the film presents Maryutka not as an idealised Bolshevik heroine but as an uneducated, rough‑edged woman who allows herself to fall in love with a class enemy. Her commitment to the cause is portrayed as almost instinctual, a product of her environment rather than polished ideological conviction. Only in the final moment, when she pulls the trigger, does she conform to the Soviet framework—and even that act is followed by grief, not triumphalism. This psychological complexity was out of step with the soon‑to‑be‑enforced Stalinist aesthetics, which demanded unambiguous heroes and clear moral dichotomies. Unsurprisingly, *The Forty-First* was largely forgotten or suppressed during Stalin’s reign—a fate not helped by the fact that Ivan Koval‑Samborsky, who played Otrok, was sent to the Gulag in the late‑1930s purges.\n\nThe film’s legacy, however, endured. After Stalin’s death and the ensuing “Thaw,” the story was deemed ripe for remake. Despite ideological objections, the politically connected director Ivan Piriyev—husband of Ada Voytsik—pushed the project forward. The 1956 colour and sound version, directed by Grigori Chukhrai as his feature debut, would become a classic in its own right, but it is Protazanov’s silent original that retains a raw, pioneering power. 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