Good News
(Buone notizie)
With Giancarlo Giannini, Angela Molina.
Italy, 1979, 35mm, color, 110 min.
Italian with English subtitles.
Petri’s final film, the ironically titled Good News, is a bitter, sometimes surreal black comedy that takes a savage swipe at the emptiness of its media-dominated age. Giancarlo Giannini stars as the nameless hero, a disaffected media executive who spends his days watching violent programming on the six television screens in his office and his evenings neglecting his frustrated wife at home. An encounter with an apparently delusional old friend who claims to be in mortal danger, and the friend’s alluring nymphomaniac wife, provides a temporary respite from drab routine. Set against a notably blighted urban environment and featuring plenty of intentionally zipless and unconsummated sex, this extravagant film offers a blistering caricature of contemporary alienation and media-induced vapidity.
Part of film series
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