Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) (Criterion Collection, Blu-ray + DVD)

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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`s 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.