DILLINGER IS DEAD (1969) ¢ ¢
D: Marco Ferreri
Michel Piccoli, Annie Girardot, Anita Pallenberg
A man who designs gas masks for a living comes home to the house he shares with two women. He cooks dinner, watches a little TV, listens to some awful music and finds a gun in a closet, wrapped in a newspaper from the time of John Dillinger's death. That's about as much of a plot as there is here. It's one of those late-'60s experiments that seems to operate on the principle that nothing has to make sense as long as it ends up on the screen. There's a nice scene where Michel Piccoli pours honey down Annie Girardot's bare back, but most of the film is just this guy cooking, watching home movies, playing with his gun and walking around the house in his boxer shorts. Dillinger, being dead, never saw any of it. You could argue he didn't miss much.
Anita Pallenberg
(1942-2017)
