04-24-2016, 05:28 PM
Another movie on the 366weirdmovies.com list.
Michel Piccoli is absolutely brilliant as Glauco. Finding his wife in bed with a headache on coming home from work, he sets about making his own dinner. In the process, he stumbles across a package in the closet that turns out to be an old gun wrapped in a newspaper announcing Dillinger’s death.
Between him cleaning/toying with the gun and making/eating dinner, very little happens in the movie. Still, Piccoli is mesmerizing.
Director Marco Ferreri made this on a small budget, filming it in the apartment of Italian pop-artist Mario Schifano (some of his paintings can be seen on the walls). The wife is portrayed by Anita Pallenberg, who at that time was shacked up with Schifano. So one could say that she came with the apartment.
This is slow-moving, but if you’re in the right frame of mind, it can be hypnotic.
Besides being in Performance and Dillinger Is Dead, Anita Pallenberg appears in yet a third movie on the 366weirdmovies.com list: Barbarella. I saw Barbarella in a theater when it first came out. Someday I need to revisit it, because I don’t recall Pallenberg’s part at all.
Michel Piccoli is absolutely brilliant as Glauco. Finding his wife in bed with a headache on coming home from work, he sets about making his own dinner. In the process, he stumbles across a package in the closet that turns out to be an old gun wrapped in a newspaper announcing Dillinger’s death.
Between him cleaning/toying with the gun and making/eating dinner, very little happens in the movie. Still, Piccoli is mesmerizing.
Director Marco Ferreri made this on a small budget, filming it in the apartment of Italian pop-artist Mario Schifano (some of his paintings can be seen on the walls). The wife is portrayed by Anita Pallenberg, who at that time was shacked up with Schifano. So one could say that she came with the apartment.
This is slow-moving, but if you’re in the right frame of mind, it can be hypnotic.
Besides being in Performance and Dillinger Is Dead, Anita Pallenberg appears in yet a third movie on the 366weirdmovies.com list: Barbarella. I saw Barbarella in a theater when it first came out. Someday I need to revisit it, because I don’t recall Pallenberg’s part at all.
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