Little Murders

The famous surrealist play on a family that doesn’t lose a daughter but gains a son.

Roger Greenspun in his review never sounded more like Bosley Crowther. Time Out waxed homiletic.

The very skillful long takes and the very useful editing are part of a general sense of the cinema that, in Feiffer’s screenplay, makes the filming perfect.

The background characters include Lou Jacobi’s windbag judge, Donald Sutherland’s hippie minister (with a tinge of David Steinberg), and Arkin’s detective brimming with the case (the wedding night is a shot in the dark, he tries an experiment with a glass of milk).