One-Dimensional Man

"The rest of the film amounts to a demonstration of Marcuse's ideas about the consumerist conformity of modern man. Glauco returns to his chicly furnished home where his pill-popping wife (Anita Pallenberg) alternates between sleeping and drowsily ogling the goldfish on the bedside table. With talk shows blaring from the television and the radio piping in loungey jazz-pop, Glauco sets about fixing an elaborate meal. (Ferreri would take food metaphors to a grotesque extreme in one of his most notorious films, 1973's 'La Grande Bouffe,' about four men who eat themselves to death.)"

In the Los Angeles Times, Dennis Lim resurrects the 1969 movie Dillinger Is Dead.