The 10th Victim
Elio Petri
This film will screen on
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
In the fabulous future, legalized assassins compete at hunting each other down in a globe-trotting show called The Big Hunt. The latest match-up is a doozy: a blond Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress play the computer-selected killers. Italian master Elio Petri’s snazzy entry in 1960s Pop Art–inflected cinema plays out as a satire on mass media, but also partakes of the glamorously weary romantic affairs of the jet-set. Bonus bit of New York history: the opening was shot on the demolition site of the old Penn Station.
“A bravura satire.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Ridiculously chic.” —Sight & Sound