For many years I've answered this question with Sleuth, directed in 1972 by Joseph Leo Mankiewicz, starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine ONLY.
A very teathrical film, from a play by Anthony Shaffer who also wrote Hitchcock's Frenzy, it has been for many year my personal little gem, not only for the perfect performances by the two actors continuosly facing each other on the screen, but also for the sets of Ken Adam, creator of early greatest Bonds, the cinematography of Oswald Morris and the music of John Addison.
A film that thought me a lot about human nature and life....talking of which, LIFE IS A STATE OF MIND is the last sentence of Being There, a 1980 Hal Ashby film starring the great Peter Sellers in his probably best performance (after The Party....), another of my favorite...
Among the others Terry Gilliam's Brazil, that I watched 3 times in a row when was released in 1981, every time most astonished than before, The Night of the Hunter, the only film directed by Charles Laughton and Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson, that literally changed my vision of reality since 1999.
So, what is your favourite film?
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