La commare secca
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Produced by Tonino Cervi
Photography by Giovanni Narzisi
Music by Carlo Rustichelli, Piero Piccioni
Roman police detectives interrogate a series of potential perpetrators in their struggle to determine whom to arrest for the brutal murder of a beautiful prostitute whose body is discovered in a park on the day of a torrential rainstorm.
La commare secca (literally “The skinny gossip”, English title The Grim Reaper) is the 1962 Italian film written and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, based on a short story by Pier Paolo Pasolini. It was Bertolucci’s directorial debut at age 21.