Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, steady, measured thriller / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.
Our read · Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive thriller · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
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