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The Tenth Victim
(La decima vittima)

Screening on Film
Directed by Elio Petri.
With Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli.
Italy, 1965, 16mm, color, 92 min.
English language version.

A flamboyant, futuristic fantasy in the 1960s Pop-art, sci-fi vein of Barbarella and Modesty Blaise, Petri’s late-night cult classic is set in a 21st century where war and aggression have been replaced by a game of legalized murder called "Man Hunt." Mastroianni and sex goddess Ursula Andress star as computer-chosen contestants of this deadly televised spectacle. She is out to make him her tenth victim in the contest, but romance inevitably intervenes. Legendary in part for Andress’s lethal double-barreled brassiere, this lurid satire lampoons media and advertising, faddish 1960s religions and health trends, the obsession with fame and money, and much else.
 

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