The Killer Inside Me (2010)
Country: US/SW/GB/CAN
Technical: col/2.35:1 109m
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Cast: Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson, Elias Koteas, Ned Beatty
Synopsis:
East Texas, the 1950s: a deputy sheriff sent to put the frighteners on a freelance prostitute instead begins an abusive relationship which he then decides to terminate in blackmail and murder. Inevitably one set of killings leads to another, but his formative years leave him fully equipped to mute the conscience switch.
Review:
With its notorious scenes of brutality to its female characters, fifties setting and disarming first-person narration on the part of the killer, Winterbottom's adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel, the second after Burt Kennedy's, inevitably recalls Boris Vian's J'irai cracher sur vos tombes. Hard to watch, and again not quite like any other Winterbottom film.
Country: US/SW/GB/CAN
Technical: col/2.35:1 109m
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Cast: Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson, Elias Koteas, Ned Beatty
Synopsis:
East Texas, the 1950s: a deputy sheriff sent to put the frighteners on a freelance prostitute instead begins an abusive relationship which he then decides to terminate in blackmail and murder. Inevitably one set of killings leads to another, but his formative years leave him fully equipped to mute the conscience switch.
Review:
With its notorious scenes of brutality to its female characters, fifties setting and disarming first-person narration on the part of the killer, Winterbottom's adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel, the second after Burt Kennedy's, inevitably recalls Boris Vian's J'irai cracher sur vos tombes. Hard to watch, and again not quite like any other Winterbottom film.
Country: US/SW/GB/CAN
Technical: col/2.35:1 109m
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Cast: Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson, Elias Koteas, Ned Beatty
Synopsis:
East Texas, the 1950s: a deputy sheriff sent to put the frighteners on a freelance prostitute instead begins an abusive relationship which he then decides to terminate in blackmail and murder. Inevitably one set of killings leads to another, but his formative years leave him fully equipped to mute the conscience switch.
Review:
With its notorious scenes of brutality to its female characters, fifties setting and disarming first-person narration on the part of the killer, Winterbottom's adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel, the second after Burt Kennedy's, inevitably recalls Boris Vian's J'irai cracher sur vos tombes. Hard to watch, and again not quite like any other Winterbottom film.