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A Quiet Place in the Country
(Un tranquillo posto in campagna)

Screening on Film
Directed by Elio Petri.
With Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Gabriella Grimaldi.
Italy, 1968, 35mm, color, 106 min.
Italian with English subtitles.

Petri’s erotic, intellectual horror film, winner of a Special Jury Prize at Berlin in 1969, offers a harrowing, hallucinatory account of an artist’s descent into madness. Franco Nero stars as a successful abstract painter who heads out for a peaceful rural idyll with his mistress-turned-manager (Redgrave) only to become unhinged by his growing obsession for the ghost of a murdered woman (Grimaldi) that haunts their holiday villa. The film’s striking canvases are by the American artist Jim Dine and the original score is from noted film composer Ennio Morricone.

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