During one seemingly routine night, Glauco, an industrial designer, returns home to find his wife in bed with a serious headache. Glauco prepares himself a meal, and while looking for some kitchenware, he discovers a revolver wrapped in a newspaper from 1934 announcing the death of John Dillinger.

Michel Piccoli’s aimless bourgeois is a bewitching mystery in Marco Ferreri’s incisive portrait of modern alienation. Rich in detail, Dillinger Is Dead cloaks its critique in the material comforts of domesticity—all the better to take down a society emptied of meaning, ruled by consumerism.