A QUIET PLACE IN THE COUNTRY
Special Features: 4K Restoration
[UN TRANQUILLO POSTO DI CAMPAGNA]
Suffering from an artistic block, successful painter Leonardo (Franco Nero) takes the suggestion of his gallerist and lover Flavia (Vanessa Redgrave) and moves his practice to a massive mansion in the Italian countryside. Leonardo is drawn instead to a neighboring decrepit villa, where his mania only intensifies as supernatural forces impact both his physical surroundings and his psychological state. Controversial on its release and contemporaneously misunderstood by critics, this giallo was Elio Petri's first collaboration with composer Ennio Morricone, who uses cacophony and Edda Dell'Orso's deceptively alluring vocals to disquieting ends for a psychosexual thriller that belies the film's ironic title. (Note adapted from the Academy Museum.) DIR/SCR Elio Petri; SCR Luciano Vicenzoni; PROD Alberto Grimaldi. Italy/France, 1968, color, 106 min. In English and Italian with English subtitles. RATED R
4K DCP restored by Alberto Grimaldi, courtesy of Cinecittà.
AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 106 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, May 31, 2024
Genre: Horror drama
