When your muse turns up dead in your living room, maybe finish the chapter first?
A crime novel writer is experiencing writer's block while writing his latest book. Then a woman is murdered in his home, and this crime gives him inspiration to finish his novel. Without noticing, he even founds the real culprit.
Writing
Deliciously self-aware script about creative parasitism.
Acting
Melnati's sweaty desperation is uncomfortably relatable.
Director
Giacomo Gentilomo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
A rare Italian giallo precursor—Gentilomo was experimenting with the 'killer in plain sight' structure years before it became formula.
Clara Calamai, who plays the doomed Federica, would later star in Ossessione (1942), Visconti's unofficial adaptation of The Postman Always Rings Twice.
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