I wtched this one when I really didn't have time to and still ended up going down a Sacco and Vanzetti research rabbit hole. Some crazy stuff there—would recommend looking into it. Just not right before finals.
As far as the movie itself, it was better than I had expected! It's obviously hard to make a political film about a complex/controversial? historical event while keeping it interesting, focused, and somewhat historically accurate. Here, they managed to do it decently well,…
After struggling to connect with the other Francesco Rosi film I'd seen, I didn't have super high expectations going into this one. I also basically knew nothing about Enrico Mattei. So I wasn't quite sure what to expect--some kind of 70s conspiracy political thriller, right?
I was pleasantly surprised to find a really great movie. It does, of course, have those conspiracy thriller elements; it starts with the mysterious death of Enrico Mattei, and people begin to question what caused…
A really interesting and unique classic western! It's certainly rare to see one focused on women, and this one also has an interesting style, slowly and sometimes harrowingly leading the characters across a dangerous journey. There's little to no music, and it's very focused on the characters (as much as it has time for them) and the trip. So I guess it's basically the opposite of A Fistful of Dollars, the other Western I watched today.
The progressiveness of the…
