Dillinger is Dead

Seldom seen in this country since a brief run in 1970, Italian director Marco Ferreri's Dillinger Is Dead is only now gaining recognition as one of the most provocative and stylish products of late 1960s' political filmmaking.

Heavily influenced by the writings of Marxist theorist Herbert Marcuse, Ferreri's focus is on an industrial designer suffocating in his marriage and in the bourgeois confines of his entire existence. He finds an escape route when he stumbles on a gun apparently once owned by Depression-era gangster John Dillinger. Euro art house favorite Michel Piccoli plays the designer, with iconic beauty Anita Pallenberg, then Keith Richards's girlfriend, as his wife. Almost 40 years on, the film "can still send an audience startled and scintillated into the night," as the Village Voice noted after it screened in New York this year. (90 mins., 35mm)

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