Christian’s review published on Letterboxd:
"If they follow the rules of the Hague Convention, they'll say that if the people responsible don't come forward, they'll execute hostages."
Pure acid, Italian polemic cinema whose first act anti-fascist partisan attack planning starts this in the vein of The Battle of Algiers (with whom this shares a cinematographer, and, of course, a composer in Morricone) before becoming a grinding, inexorable, granular condemnation of every complicit society structure and attitude in Nazi-allied Rome that led to the execution of 335 Italians, up to and including the Pope himself (something that got the filmmakers sued and sentenced for libel, which how you KNOW it's good).
The scene where Marcello Mastroianni slowly backs away in dazed horror as his superior reads the Pope's official response to the circumstances of the impending massacre - a statement to be released AFTER it has occurred - as the sound slowly echoes out and the room itself becomes a tightened fisheye lens void.....unreal.
I love Cobra but also I don't understand how you write and direct something like this and then go on to make Cobra lol
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