Film 9 for the Letterboxd Season Challenge. The other films I plan to watch for the challenge are here.
Week 9: Hardboiled Wonderland
Challenge: Watch an unseen film from the Hardboiled Wonderland 1970s list of crime films.
Film I Chose: Serpico (1973)
Okay, so this is the week 9 film, which is correct for this week, but due to time issues I’ve had to skip weeks 7 and 8 for now – I will return to them! I just didn’t want to get too far behind, and I had a good opportunity to watch this one.
I’ve had Serpico on my watch list for a couple of years now, both because I’ve been trying to catch up on 1970s films and because I like Sidney Lumet films. I definitely had some incorrect preconceptions about this one, though – perhaps because of the one-word title and having an idea it was about a rogue kind of cop, I thought it would be like an Italian cop version of Shaft, and be action-y and funky.
It is not.