Blu-ray Film Review | Radiance

We Still Kill the Old Way (1967) • Limited Edition Blu-ray [Radiance] — suspenseful but unsatisfying Mafia murder mystery

In Sicily, a leftist professor seeks to uncover the truth about two men killed during a hunting party, but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don’t want him to learn it.

We Still Kill the Old Way / A ciascuno il suo is a disappointment if you’re expecting a satisfying, meticulously crafted crime thriller. However, if you want an unusual slab of suspense wrapped around a complex social commentary, there’s plenty to appreciate. It certainly looks like a murder mystery, but don’t expect to be spoon-fed a solution. There are plenty of clues, but identifying the culprit or culprits is left to the viewer, who, excluded by the fourth wall, remains powerless to do anything about it.

As would be expected from Italian auteur Elio Petri, this is a stylistically experimental film that employs all the trappings of a detective story but subverts them to make a…