Dillinger è Morto (Dillinger is Dead) (1969)
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82% of critics liked it
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This offbeat combination of reality and fantasy finds Glauco (Michel Piccoli) returning home from his job as an industrial engineer to find his wife (Anita Pallenberg) in bed with a headache. Deciding to fix dinner for himself, he reads from a gourmet cookbook as he watches television, or listens to… More This offbeat combination of reality and fantasy finds Glauco (Michel Piccoli) returning home from his job as an industrial engineer to find his wife (Anita Pallenberg) in bed with a headache. Deciding to fix dinner for himself, he reads from a gourmet cookbook as he watches television, or listens to the radio. He runs across an old .45 caliber handgun and he cleans the weapon between attending to his culinary creation. He later goes to bed, but rises when he is restless and goes to make love with the maid (Annie Girardot), after which he examines the newly painted revolver. After shooting his wife to death, he imagines he is driven to the ocean where he swims out to a boat bound for Tahiti and takes a job as a cook. The title is a reference to the notorious American gangster who could shoot his way out of any place but the police line in front of Chicago's Biograph Theater. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Directed By
- Marco Ferreri
- Written By
- Marco Ferreri, Sergio Bazzini
- Genres
- Drama, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense, Special Interest
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jan 23, 1969 Wide
- On DVD
- Mar 16, 2010
- Studio
- Roissy Films
Critic Reviews
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Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Dillinger is one of those artful endurance tests that views conventional storytelling as a sell-out. Yet the movie's also playful, droll, and unexpectedly wise within its rigorous framework.
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J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Like an Ionesco one-act, the movie is purposely backloaded, rolling along to no apparent purpose and then climaxing with an absurd act of violence that casts a harsh white glare on the bourgeois self-indulgence that preceded it.
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Manohla Dargis, New York Times
There are some sharp ideas tucked alongside the tedious high jinks and rank sexism of Dillinger Is Dead.
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David Fear, Time Out New York
The titular gangster isn't the only one who's dead; according to Ferreri, it was a condition shared by everyone who bought into the late-20th-century ideal of success. They just didn't know it at the time.
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James Kendrick, Q Network Film Desk
seems less groundbreaking than simply intriguing as an artistic relic of a much different cinematic era
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Cast
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Michel Piccoli
as Glauco
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Anita Pallenberg
as His Wife
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Annie Girardot
as Maid
