Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St
415.978.2787
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Dillinger Is Dead (1969)
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June 11, 2009 – June 14, 2009
Thursdays–Saturdays (7:30pm)
Sundays (2pm)
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$8
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Since being certified a masterpiece by the likes of Jean-Luc Godard and Cahiers du cinema in 1969, Marco Ferreri's controversial humdinger Dillinger Is Dead has been largely AWOL on most tastemakers' radars. Until now. With oblique, slow-roast episodes that could enter Italian archives as "Bored Bourgeoisie, 1969," Ferreri's minimalist satire on modern alienation remains a loaded gun, one certainly unfit for those spectators who want a bulletpointed plot. Distilled to its most basic state, Dillinger concerns the long-coming "awakening" — condensed into one unremarkable night — of square designer Glaucho (Michel Piccoli). The critique's subversive effect is near imperceptible until it's too late; it's only after a chiefly mysterious, meandering runtime that the viewer is treated to an in-your-face act that's not unlike a sudden whiff of smelling salts.
