Cinematheque: Italian Masterworks at the Chazen Museum of Art

A bored industrial designer (Piccoli) looking for diversion discovers an old revolver wrapped in a 1934 newspaper headline announcing the death of a famous American gangster. He paints the gun, seduces his maid, and contemplates suicide, as well as the murder of his wife. Writer/director Ferreri’s (Le Grande Bouffe, The Last Woman) surreal and symbolic head trip belongs in the tradition of the Theater of the Absurd. (35mm, 90 min., with Michel Piccoli; Directed by Marco Ferreri)