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Elio Petri, pseudonimo di Eraclio Petri (Roma, 29 gennaio 1929 – Roma, 10 novembre 1982), è stato un regista, sceneggiatore e critico cinematografico italiano. Importante regista del cinema italiano, fu autore di opere di ispirazione civile e denuncia sociale, in cui mise in evidenza il tema del rapporto tra l'uomo e l'autorità [1].
Elio Petri (born January 29, 1929, Rome, Italy—died November 10, 1982, Rome) was an Italian motion-picture director and screenwriter.
Sep 2, 2014 · Elio Petri: A Forgotten Genius, Remembered | FILM | PORT Magazine. Curator of the ICA’s Elio Petri season, Nico Marzano, introduces a selection of the director’s seminal works and charts their influence on subsequent generations of filmmakers. Elio Petri’s films are popular art for the people.
One of the most politically charged filmmakers to emerge in the European cinema of the 1960s, Elio Petri has often been overshadowed by such contemporaries as Bertolucci and Pasolini. Ripe for reexamination, his sleek oeuvre bears witness to a rare ...
The provocative Italian filmmaker Elio Petri’s most internationally acclaimed work is this remarkable, visceral, Oscar-winning thriller. Petri maintains a tricky balance between absurdity and realism in telling the Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector (a commanding Gian Maria Volontè) investigating a heinous crime—which he himself ...
The loud jazz soundtrack plays like a joke, and Martelli’s lack of integrity and passion is a critique of a generation. Petri comes from a different perspective, and this film defines how his films will stand apart from the art of his time.
Sep 4, 2005 · This long-awaited documentary on Elio Petri (1929-1982) comes as a surprise for the young generation and as a relief for older film-lovers. Indeed, the life and work of this great master, presented here in chronological order, is as crucial to the History of cinema as Fellini or Rosselini's films.
