10 May 2006
"He is the servant of the law and eludes judgment." He comes to the girl's apartment some afternoons to play killing games, posing her as a variety of homicide victims and snapping her photograph... He is a sadist, a bully. She is a masochist, but with her it's a game and she probably didn't expect him to cut her throat. The murder takes place on his last day as chief of homicide; he has been promoted to head the political branch... He takes leave of his old job very carefully, littering her apartment with fingerprints, footprints, dozens of clues. Then he helps his successor investigate the crime. He has a compulsion to discover just how powerful he really is. Even though every clue points to him, the police will refuse to touch him.
The
films of
Elio Petri revisited
at the MoMA.
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