La Commare Secca

"La Commare Secca" (The Grim Reaper, 1962) is the debut feature from Bernardo Bertolucci — watch online on iFILM. A woman's body turns up in a rain-soaked Rome park, and police work through a list of suspects: a girl-crazy teenager, a pickpocket, a soldier on leave, a tourist, a pimp.

Each one recounts the events of that day differently. Bertolucci was 22 when he made it, already borrowing Rashomon's fractured-testimony structure to turn a police procedural into a study in unreliable memory. Raw and confident for a first film. Stream "La Commare Secca" online on iFILM.