Tag Archives: true crime movies

a duel of giants (film: Flic Story – Jacques Deray, 1975)

Posted on December 6, 2024 by admin

‘Flic Story‘ (1975) is one of the last films in a remarkable series of films ‘noir’ inspired by the world of French gangsters, made between the 1950s and the 1970s. The master of the genre was Jean-Pierre Melville, whose last … Continue reading →

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holy crimes (film: Holy Spider – Ali Abbasi, 2022)

Posted on February 12, 2024 by admin

Ali Abbasi, an Iranian director living in Scandinavia for over a decade chose a famous case that happened in Iran in 2000 and 2001 as an opportunity to make in ‘Holy Spider‘ a film that deals with one of the … Continue reading →

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the profile of a murderess (film: Violette Nozière – Claude Chabrol, 1978)

Posted on August 21, 2020 by admin

In 1978, when Claude Chabrol made ‘Violette Noziere’, many people in France remembered very well the criminal case of the woman who gives the film its name. It had been one of the scandalous, passionate, and morbid stories of the … Continue reading →

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sweet goodbye (Film: The Old Man & the Gun – Robert Redford, 2018)

Posted on February 11, 2019 by admin

Acting is a profession in which ‘never say never’ applies in many cases. Yet, if we are to believe the intentions publicly stated in August 2018, David Lowery‘s ‘The Old Man & the Gun‘ will be Robert Redford‘s last film … Continue reading →

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a chilling killer (film: The Iceman – Michael Shannon, 2012)

Posted on June 17, 2017 by admin

I am not a great fan of ‘true crime’ stories, books, or films. And then, there are exceptions. The Iceman directed by Ariel Vromen is one of them, and I will try to shortly explain why it succeeds in my … Continue reading →

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‘boring and watchable’ (Film: The Infiltrator – Brad Furman, 2016)

Posted on August 25, 2016 by admin

I could not avoid borrowing the qualifications used by a Web site from Toronto when writing about this film. It’s ‘boring and watchable’. An unusual combination indeed. And yet, this is exactly how I feel about ‘The Infiltrator’ directed by … Continue reading →

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