The 10th Victim

Massimo Santilli

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It makes a certain effect to see an Italian science fiction film of 1965.

Actually does, primarily because the genre is not customary in Italian cinema and also because how, in films of the past imagined the future, shows naivete and take many prophetic insights.

In this case, the intuitions does not lack a certain blasé cynicism also suggested by the genius of the writing that was sharp Ennio Flaiano.

He also effect because in 1965 the technical means to allow a representation of the future consists only of sets, costumes and furnishings.

Dominate, in fact, the quotation of Pop Art more comics full of plastic telephones Ericofon “and a dash of Fellini.

Poverty of means, as they say, but the richness of ideas.

“The Tenth Victim” is a film from 1965 directed by Elio Petri.

The first time I caught DVD in the stalls but it is one of the annexes of the series “Our life in 100 films.” If it’s still around, I advise you not snubbed the price is slightly higher than that of a rental and series is decent.

What is surprising, aside Mastroianni in the company’s first Bond girl dressed in the fashions of the time, is a trace of satire velenosetta the “futuristic” modernity, which of course reflects on tic, fashions, and the objects of the period.

There is talk of advertising, television, marriage and divorce, family and comics, control of violence.

It is instructive to see how, when and how things went.

The easiest thing is to see if, for example, the role of television in the film was imagined “science fiction”.

“The Tenth Victim” is also a film veers decisively towards the classic Italian comedy, the cynical times capable of flogging, with malice, the spirit of Italy and its “dogmas”. The scene of “Sunset”, which I hope you will appreciate, it is better than a treatise on social anthropology.

The film did not have a particular critical success, but seems to have earned over time a well-deserved aura of cult.

Rating: 5 / 5