A husband (Michel Piccoli) leads a monotonous life in which he always leaves and returns home at the same times each day. But this particular day he comes home to find his wife is in bed with a dreadful migraine headache. He decides to cook for himself, something he never does. As he poodles around the kitchen, rummaging in drawers and cupboards for ingredients, he discovers a loaded revolver wrapped in a piece of newspaper announcing the death of the American bank robber and murderer, John Dillinger. The discovery unleashes a chain of actions in him that are both lethal and almost comical. Directed by Marco Ferreri DILLINGER IS DEAD received much praise by avant-garde film-makers of the time, in particular Jean-Luc Godard, who pronounced it as simply marvelous.