A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.
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Italian crime paranoia, political skullduggery, and exploitation of the lower class. We Still Kill the Old Way (BEST TITLE?!?) is a pretty nifty... lingering on the polizio/giallo edge... with plenty of scumbag corruption and murderous whodunnit intrigue as Gian Maria Volonté slays it as a inquisitive professor turned amateur sleuth in a Sicilian battlefield of deceit.
Pretty damn good.
General spoilers ahead.
More than fulfilling director Elio Petri's goal of making a "non-didactic political film,"* We Still Kill the Old Way is a wonderfully wrought stew of politics, sexual desire, intellectual elitism, and murder, all of which melt together in an exquisitely crafted, genuinely thrilling whole. Starring Gian Maria Volonté as Paolo Laurana, a naïve, rhetorically and electorally left-wing professor, Petri's film uses Laurana to explore a number of issues that were not only relevant to Italians in 1967, both also remain so today, for everyone.
When two of Laurana's friends from his Sicilian village home are murdered while out hunting, he's convinced that the men arrested for the crime (the family of a young girl with whom one…
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"The usual petty bourgeois custom we all know."
Elio Petri packs the Italian political paranoia conspiracy thriller into a concise but nonetheless effective little bundle. Gian Maria Volonté plays the inquisitive communist professor Paolo Laurana whose playboy pharmacist friend "dies" in a "hunting" "accident." Nobody was surprised that he had been receiving an abundance of anonymous letters threatening his life — he was sleeping with half the village's wives, after all — but nobody expected anyone to take it so far as to actually murder him. The cops put a few of the usual suspects in jail, but Volonté has reason to believe that they've been falsely convicted: the anonymous letters were…
A downbeat slice of paranoia and mystery the Italian way, this is less about solving murders and more about revealing the underbelly of conspiracy and corruption in politics and power.
The film follows a politically-left, socially awkward professor (Gian Maria Volonte) as he attempts to uncover the killer of his two acquaintances, only his ivory-tower naivety stops him from seeing what everyone else knows. It’s a deeply cynical mix of politics, control, sexual desire, elitism and death, brewed in a way that keeps it bubbling under, visible only if you know. With the bright Sicilian sunny setting as the perfect counterpoint to the mood of the piece.
Volonte is excellent, giving a real physicality to his role as the academic…
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Volonté's first of 4 collaborations with Elio Petri, this is a political murder mystery/thriller. Set in a costal city in Sicily, it's about a leftist professor who investigates a shady double murder only to uncovers a conspiracy collusion between the Mafia, the Roman Catholic Church and local leaders. Filled with irony, conspiracies and double-crosses, it's signal Petri's shift into more overly political films.
Volonté plays Professor Paolo Laurina who realizes only when it's too late that he's in way over his head. There's a certain naivetè in his desire to prevent some illiterate peasants from being railroaded for the murders without reckoning on the powerful groups stonewalling him. It's almost…
Some of the major currents that ran through Sicily intermingle in We Still Kill the Old Way preventing the truth from emerging, with each current having its own reasons for doing so. It seems like one relies on the other in a tapestry that's tightly woven. Gian Maria Volonte, a leftist intellectual teacher of high school literature, that lives with his mother and grandmother, likely would have understood this if he hadn't fallen for Irene Pappas, who's beauty and mysteriousness are just too captivating for any man, let alone one who's experience with women is practically non-existent. The director, Elio Petri, brings you into the mystery behind the murders of two men on their outdoor excursion to get some fresh…
Cannes Prize winning, highly controversial political thriller given a small island make-under from Elio Petri.
A Sicilian pharmacist is receiving anonymous death threats but thinks nothing of it due to his vociferous sexual appetite, the sheer number of lovers he has and any number of possible cuckolds being responsible. However, when he and his doctor friend are brutally shot on a hunting trip, a lonely and politically agitated professor friend of his doesn’t believe the police who have the father and brothers of one of his young lovers in custody. And so begins an investigation into the church, local politics, organised crime and the very culture of the island itself that all have interwoven themselves into the very fabric of…
Continuing my voyage of discovery into the films of the great Elio Petri and, boy, what a discovery this is.
A tight, tense political thriller that manages to tell it’s fascinating, convoluted story in a lean and mean 94 minutes. I‘m sure there isn‘t a director working today who could bring in this plot in under 2 hours and make it half as interesting.
Forget the English title, which makes it sound like some kind of black comedy. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
The setting is a hot and barren village in Sicily. Two men are killed under strange circumstances, after one of them had received anonymous death threats for month. Everybody in the village seems like a…
I've been watching a ton of movies lately, and a good handful of them have been Italian. This one doesn't necessarily stand out in terms of form or story, but it was an okay watch.
Vegan alert:
-Hunting
-Shooting birds
-Call for fresh fish
ZWEI SÄRGE AUF BESTELLUNG!
Arturo Manno ist ein echter Womanizer. Alle Damen in Sizilien und bestimmt auch darüber hinaus kriegt er mit seinem "unwiderstehlichen" Charme in die Kiste.
Doch seit kurzem ziehen dunkle Wolken auf im romatischen nach Flieder duftenden Liebesnest, denn Arturo bekommt Morddrohungen.
Trachten eifersüchtige Damen nach seinem Leben, oder sind es deren Gatten?
Sind es Neider und es stecken rachsüchtige Gedanken dahinter?
Arturo macht so weiter wie bisher, bis er eines Tages tatsächlich einem Mordanschlag zu Opfer fällt.
Schuldige sind zu schnell gefunden, doch Arturo´s Kumpel Paolo hat Zweifel und stellt privat Nachforschungen an..
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