Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (The 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 commanding Gian Maria Volontè) investigating a heinous crime—which he himself committed. Both a compelling character study and a disturbing commentary on the draconian government crackdowns in Italy in the late 1960s and early ’70s, Petri’s kinetic portrait of surreal bureaucracy is a perversely pleasurable rendering of controlled chaos.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• 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 sixty-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

MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.77 x 5.24 x 0.59 inches; 4.16 ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ BR3210
Director ‏ : ‎ Petri, Elio
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray
Release date ‏ : ‎ June 8, 2021
Actors ‏ : ‎ Volonte, Gian Maria, Bolkan, Florinda, Randone, Salvo, Santuccio, Gianni, Dominici, Arturo
Studio ‏ : ‎ The Criterion Collection
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0915N27YK
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1