272 - La Commare Secca (1962)

Random Acts of Cinema

English - December 12, 2023 03:04 - 1 hour - 49 MB - ★★★★ - 13 ratings
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In his first film, renowned director Bernardo Bertolucci prowls through the not-so-innocent lives of strangers who just happened to be in a park on the night of a murder. Each have good reason to embellish and omit details as they recount their day leading up to the murder to the police interrogator, but the director unsparingly shows all of the petty choices and disastrous missteps of them all.

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927).