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The Grim Reaper

Original title: La commare secca
  • 19621962
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 28m
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6.9/10
2.4K
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The Grim Reaper (1962)
  • Crime
  • Drama
  • Mystery
When a woman is killed in a park, the police bring in everyone suspected of being there when the incident occurred and question them. One of them is the killer.When a woman is killed in a park, the police bring in everyone suspected of being there when the incident occurred and question them. One of them is the killer.When a woman is killed in a park, the police bring in everyone suspected of being there when the incident occurred and question them. One of them is the killer.
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
2.4K
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  • Director
    • Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Writers
    • Pier Paolo Pasolini(story)
    • Bernardo Bertolucci(screenplay)
    • Sergio Citti(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Francesco Ruiu
    • Giancarlo De Rosa
    • Vincenzo Ciccora
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  • Director
    • Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Writers
    • Pier Paolo Pasolini(story)
    • Bernardo Bertolucci(screenplay)
    • Sergio Citti(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Francesco Ruiu
    • Giancarlo De Rosa
    • Vincenzo Ciccora
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    • 22User reviews
    • 25Critic reviews
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    Giancarlo De Rosa in The Grim Reaper (1962)
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    Marisa Solinas in The Grim Reaper (1962)
    Marisa Solinas in The Grim Reaper (1962)
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    Francesco Ruiu
    • Canticchiaas Canticchia
    Giancarlo De Rosa
    • Ninoas Nino
    Vincenzo Ciccora
    • Mayoras Mayor
    Alfredo Leggi
    Alfredo Leggi
    • Bostellias Bostelli
    Gabriella Giorgelli
    Gabriella Giorgelli
    • Esperiaas Esperia
    Santina Lisio
    • Esperia's motheras Esperia's mother
    Carlotta Barilli
    • Serenellaas Serenella
    Ada Peragostini
    • Mariaas Maria
    Clorinda Celani
    • Sorayaas Soraya
    Allen Midgette
    Allen Midgette
    • Teodoro, the soldieras Teodoro, the soldier
    Renato Troiani
    • Natalinoas Natalino
    Wanda Rocci
    Wanda Rocci
    • Prostituteas Prostitute
    • (as Vanda Rocci)
    Marisa Solinas
    Marisa Solinas
    • Brunaas Bruna
    Alvaro D'Ercole
    • Francolicchioas Francolicchio
    Romano Labate
    • Pipitoas Pipito
    Emi Rocci
    • Domenicaas Domenica
    Lorenza Benedetti
    • Millyas Milly
    Erina Torelli
    • Mariellaas Mariella
    • Director
      • Bernardo Bertolucci
    • Writers
      • Pier Paolo Pasolini(story)
      • Bernardo Bertolucci(screenplay)
      • Sergio Citti(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Title translation: The Skinny Gossip.
    • Connections
      Featured in Great Directors (2009)
    • Soundtracks
      Addio addio
      Written by Franco Migliacci and Domenico Modugno

      Performed by Claudio Villa

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    7/10
    The Grim Reaper
    Bertolucci's director debut has a quite distinctive Neo-Italian modus operandi, utilizing a multi- narrative structure of portraying different groups of people's idle life, who have been involved into a prostitute murder case. The raw-texture of the film is magnificently preserved and the primitive settings are bold enough to impose an intimate analysis upon various Italian people's mind-state at that particular time. At the age of 22, it was a great opportunity for Bertolucci to be granted the permission to work on his master Pasolini's script for his own career inception. Also it's a gutsy manoeuvre for Pasolini to trust his young disciple to fully excavate his talent, which is regretfully a rare case now in the cinema business.

    During the park scenes, the film has a distinctively poignant tableaux scenery, but elsewhere the nonchalant idleness of each segmental piece is astonishingly fragmentary and unable to relate it to the core murder case in any rate, the film sacrifices its more audience arresting detective fodder to pursue a random characterization of Bertolucci's own mark although may at odds with his later more prestigious work.

    The film's semblance of Akira Kurosawa's Rasho-Mon (1950) is just a bluff, apart from structure-wise design, the film seldom emits a certain commitment of story-telling, nevertheless it has its own charm once it suits to some specific cinema devotees' appetites, but with a horizontal parallel comparison with other 1960s elite peers, Bertolucci is still in his rookie mode and no one should demand too much for a 22-year-old novice to create a groundbreaking director debut, so after all, it is a thin-on-the-ground treasure and deserves a great thumb-up.
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    • May 30, 2012

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    • Release date
      • May 6, 1982 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Italy
    • Language
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • La cosecha estéril
    • Filming locations
      • Parco Paolino now Schuster, Ostiense, Roma, Italy
    • Production companies
      • Cinematografica Cervi
      • Cineriz
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 28 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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