Capo
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Post by Capo on Apr 7, 2007 13:45:46 GMT
The Black Dahlia Brian De Palma 2006 USA In 1940s California, two cops, also boxers, try to solve the case of a murdered woman, disembowed and cut in two. Convoluted, messily-edited film, with a clunky rhythm and nothing in particular to fall in love with. It looks nice, full of fleshy palettes of browns and yellows, and it does have one good set-piece in which two men fall over a balcony to their death, but there are some risible moments of corn, such as that in which Hartnett whips the tablecloth from the table in the heat of the moment with Johansson. Johansson seems underused, Swank fails to impress, and Hartnett is watchable; the best shot in the entire affair is that preceding the take-down of a crime pin, a street view of not only the case at hand, but the initial discovery, by some frantic blonde, of the Black Dahlia's corpse, a clever, implicit bit of storytelling.
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