A ciascuno il suo
Directed by:
Elio PetriCinematography:
Luigi KuveillerComposer:
Luis BacalovCast:
Gian Maria Volonté, Irene Papas, Gabriele Ferzetti, Salvo Randone, Luigi Pistilli, Laura Nucci, Mario Scaccia, Leopoldo Trieste, Valentino MacchiPlots(1)
After two men are killed on a hunting trip, a lonely professor (Gian Maria Volonté), takes it upon himself to investigate what he believes was not a simple honour killing. As his search intensifies, politics and the Church become implicated in a complex conspiracy orchestrated by a powerful criminal organisation. Elio Petri’s We Still Kill the Old Way, based on the novel by Leonardo Sciascia, is a tense paranoid thriller that features Volonté in one of his finest performances and a superb score by Luis Bacalov. (Radiance Films)
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Gian Maria Volonté was an acting chameleon in every way. A year before this film, he portrayed with absolute bravado a villain that made everyone shiver, and here he portrays a downtrodden professor of literature who is unwittingly in the drag of people playing unfair games with him in his quest. It's not a bad film, but I don't see anything special about the award-winning script, it missed me emotionally, except for the ending, when it all escalates and the final murder is unforgettable. If there is anything interesting about the film, it's the realities of Sicily in the late 1960s, its architecture, beautiful landscape and people, and the sultry atmosphere of a small Sicilian town where everyone knows everyone. And Bacalov’s music, it was really good.
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