SLAP THE MONSTER ON PAGE ONE

Political firebrand Marco Bellocchio (FISTS IN THE POCKET) turns his camera onto the propagandistic power of corrupt news media in his cynical classic SLAP THE MONSTER ON PAGE ONE. Il Giornale’s conservative editor-in-chief (Gian Maria Volonté, FOR A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS) seeks to influence an upcoming election against the leftist enemies of the paper. When a murder case related to the opposition crosses his desk, he begins a campaign of disinformation and fabrication to manipulate the public’s crosshairs onto his own opposition. Provocatively bleak with a 1970s Italian grit, SLAP THE MONSTER ON PAGE ONE remains as prescient and powerful as it was on release.