The Tenth Victim (1965)
(La decima vittima)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: Technicolor 92m
Director: Elio Petri
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli
Synopsis:
A mediatised competition in which participants alternate between being hunter and victim sees a woman who has survived nine matches play cat and mouse with a man in Rome who will be her tenth. He, meanwhile, sees her coming and performs some manoeuvres of his own.
Review:
Being Italian, this bloodless would-be dystopian fantasy plays more like a sex comedy than a po-faced Hunger Games before the fact. It ambles along quite colourfully, showing off Andress's athletic physique in a backless pink trouser suit, and giving Mastroianni a blond rinse. In fact, both stars have rarely looked better, and Petri manages to make bits of Rome look positively futuristic alongside the archaeological backdrops. The satire, however, is decidedly on the flabby side, and the denouement, in which a succession of volte faces resolve themselves in a shotgun wedding aboard a jumbo jet, just downright silly.
(La decima vittima)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: Technicolor 92m
Director: Elio Petri
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli
Synopsis:
A mediatised competition in which participants alternate between being hunter and victim sees a woman who has survived nine matches play cat and mouse with a man in Rome who will be her tenth. He, meanwhile, sees her coming and performs some manoeuvres of his own.
Review:
Being Italian, this bloodless would-be dystopian fantasy plays more like a sex comedy than a po-faced Hunger Games before the fact. It ambles along quite colourfully, showing off Andress's athletic physique in a backless pink trouser suit, and giving Mastroianni a blond rinse. In fact, both stars have rarely looked better, and Petri manages to make bits of Rome look positively futuristic alongside the archaeological backdrops. The satire, however, is decidedly on the flabby side, and the denouement, in which a succession of volte faces resolve themselves in a shotgun wedding aboard a jumbo jet, just downright silly.
(La decima vittima)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: Technicolor 92m
Director: Elio Petri
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli
Synopsis:
A mediatised competition in which participants alternate between being hunter and victim sees a woman who has survived nine matches play cat and mouse with a man in Rome who will be her tenth. He, meanwhile, sees her coming and performs some manoeuvres of his own.
Review:
Being Italian, this bloodless would-be dystopian fantasy plays more like a sex comedy than a po-faced Hunger Games before the fact. It ambles along quite colourfully, showing off Andress's athletic physique in a backless pink trouser suit, and giving Mastroianni a blond rinse. In fact, both stars have rarely looked better, and Petri manages to make bits of Rome look positively futuristic alongside the archaeological backdrops. The satire, however, is decidedly on the flabby side, and the denouement, in which a succession of volte faces resolve themselves in a shotgun wedding aboard a jumbo jet, just downright silly.