The film was entered into the 1969 Cannes Film Festival . '' Dillinger Is Dead '' was the subject of controversy on its release for its violence and depiction of the '' parvenu '' set . Critics have also called it director Marco Ferreri 's masterpiece . The influential French film magazine '' Cahiers du Cinéma '' praised the film , interviewed the director and translated two of his previous interviews from the Italian magazine '' Cinema & Film '' . The acclaim opened the resources of Paris to Ferreri and he spent much of the next 15 years living there . During that time he made his internationally best known films , including '' The Last Woman '' ( 1976 ) and '' Bye Bye Monkey '' ( 1978 ) . Ferreri and Michel Piccoli became fast friends and worked together subsequently on films such as '' The Last Woman '' and '' La Grande Bouffe '' ( 1973 )
1969 Cannes Film Festival
1969 Cannes Film Festival
Dillinger Is Dead