Un tranquillo posto di campagna (A Quiet Place in the Country). 1968. Directed by Elio Petri

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Un tranquillo posto di campagna (A Quiet Place in the Country). 1968. Directed by Elio Petri. Courtesy of Photofest.

Un tranquillo posto di campagna (A Quiet Place in the Country). 1968. Italy/France. Directed by Elio Petri. Screenplay by Luciano Vincenzoni, Petri. With Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Georges Géret. 4K digital restoration by Alberto Grimaldi; courtesy Cinecittà. In Italian; English subtitles. 105 min.

Elio Petri and Ennio Morricone collaborated on seven films (their masterwork being Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion. This, their first, is based on a bit of Edwardian macabre by the once-celebrated fantasist Oliver Onions (his 1911 short story “The Beckoning Fair One”), a twisted piece of psychological horror involving a painter (Franco Nero) who, crippled with artistic and sexual doubt, repairs to the countryside with his kinky girlfriend-cum-art dealer (Vanessa Redgrave), hoping to find inspiration but instead consumed by supernatural visions of a dead countess. Luigi Kuveiller’s off-kilter experiments in kaleidoscopic color cinematography and an unnervingly discordant avant-garde score by Morricone and the Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza add to the queasy charms of this largely forgotten giallo.

This film accompanies Ennio Morricone.

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