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A disaffected media executive spends his days watching violent programming on the television screens in his office and his evenings neglecting his frustrated wife at home. The monotonicity is disturbed when he is contacted by an old friend who confides in him he is being threatened by mysterious assassins.
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📋 Film Details
| Original Title | Buone notizie |
| Year | 1979 |
| Country | Italy |
| Genre | Comedy, Drama |
| Director | Elio Petri |
| Runtime | 102 min. |
| Rating | TMDB: 6.1/10 (17 votes) |
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🎬 MovieFinder's Take
Petri constructs a sharp satire on media saturation, relying on the dissonance between sterile office life and erupting paranoia. The film explores alienation through a lens of dark comedy, where television violence bleeds into personal reality.
What lingers after viewing is a sense of unease about our own consumption of spectacle, wrapped in a cleverly absurd plot. A prescient critique that feels eerily modern. — MovieFinder Editorial
Director: Elio Petri
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Best viewed alone, with a taste for dark, cerebral comedy and societal critique.
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