The Assassin (1961)
Dir: Elio Petri
Italy/France, 1961, 98minmins
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle, Cristina Gaioni
In Petri’s first feature, Marcello Mastroianni is Alfredo, a suave antiques dealer accused of killing his jealous lover. As the police circumvent the law in their effort to get Alfredo to confess to the murder, it becomes clear that his innocence or guilt isn’t Petri’s primary concern, but rather the authorities’ questionable tactics (something to which the Italian censors objected at the time) pitted against Alfredo, an alluring con artist. Mastroianni’s amoral charmer is a more sinister cousin to the jaded journalist he portrayed a year earlier in the Fellini classic La Dolce Vita , and the film helped to cement Petri’s themes of greed, mendacity and official corruption.
1961 Berlin International Film Festival, In Competition
Screening:
In-theatre Screening
2016-09-15 (Thu)
19:302016-10-06 (Thu)
19:30
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Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
HK Science Museum Lecture Hall
Hong Kong Film Archive
K11 Art House
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Festival Grand Cinema
the sky
MCL Telford Cinema
Tai Kwun
MOViE MOViE
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Chinese Subtitles
Category III
Post-screening discussion with the director
Director and/or actor(s) will meet the audience
Post-screening talk
Full House
Introduction
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