Following the then-fashionable ideas of the radical psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich in identifying sexual inhibition with the authoritarian personality, “Investigation” also nods to Kafka with a closing quote from “The Trial.” But the movie turns Kafka on his head when a guilty man is forced to confess his innocence. Investigation of a Citizen Above SuspicionAvailable on the Criterion Channel starting May 18.

Source: New York Times May 14, 2020 13:52 UTC