Greetings gentle reader and welcome to another installment of the Sunday Morning Movie. Today it’s a grim tale of fidelity in the face of repression, Il Sospeto :

Il sospetto (1975)

and next week’s movie, Hour of the Wolf :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XarTsIOxms&t=2153s

Reviews of Il Sospeto :

Letterboxd says:

This takes patience. The first half is Gian Maria Volonté meeting fellow communists, minutes at a time, to discuss whether to readmit him to the party after some disagreements. He spends time walking the streets with Annie Giradot, who is assigned to assess his worthiness through talk of Trotskyites and other inscrutable party matters, This is all fluid, the characters are always moving, the camera is always moving. It can be a bit dizzying, circular, and claustrophobic.

But then Emilio (Volonté) returns to Turin with an assignment and the film’s focus narrows. The style and technique is much the same, but now with a clear and understandable goal in mind, its effectiveness pays off.…