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  Review by Emma Fogarty✝️☭⚧️🎦🏳️‍🌈☘️ ★★★★

  The prodigal communist coasts the European streets
  at each others throats were they over theory

  They grant him the keys
  back into their clique

  Of Trotskyites, disunity, the red kingdom and splinters they spoke
  To each other and not the audience they were unware of, us watching
  Annie and Gian, on their didactic verbal dance and left wing stance

  A ferret the prodigal fellow was made
  in the collective tricks and paranoia
  to fetch the moles

  Eagle eyes reluctantly on one's own
  but also otherwise

  The four about town
  he seeked out

  The tale written in the 75th year
  but echoing 30s chambers

  In his mission we were like he so absorbed
  suspense's bridge
  at the ridges we did, like…

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  Review by lumumbista ★★★½

  The fine period reconstruction, vibrant narrative tension (bordering on thriller), attention to detail and excellent acting by the entire cast, starting with a Volontè in a state of grace, allow Maselli to offer a political film that outlines the spirit of the times and the nature of the feelings of the underground militants. With repeated references to the intense ideological discussion going on in the 1930s among the adherents of the communist organization. In short, a very timely period portrait with no smears whatsoever. A difficult, risky undertaking, but happily brought to a conclusion by the director avoiding expressive academisms as well as mannered ideologisms. Il sospetto, a unique film of its kind, lends itself to multiple readings but remains…

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  Review by Sdiary 1

  Incomplete viewing. Not what I expected. Very talky and boring. But suffering from really bad picture and worse subtitles I thought I'd give up and try another day.