An unoriginal modus operandi
di Robert Abele The Los Angeles Times
If David Fincher was able to graduate from the grime-chic surface thrills of "Se7en" to the personal, obsessive mastery of "Zodiac," then surely filmmakers can consider serial killers over and done with. But no, here comes the drearily suspense-less "Anamorph" to make grisly/gorgeous images with purposely massacred bodies and leave any human drama pertaining to the act of murder for the movie equivalent of a missing persons bureau. Willem Dafoe plays a boozy, ashen New York detective haunted by the guilt-ridden remnants of a past serial killer's crimes, and whose soul-dead existence may be the muse for a new psycho who likes turning his victims into trompe l'oeil tableaux. But a movie that has to tell us it's about changing perspective with gallery-installation murder scenes and mini-lectures on Renaissance art techniques and Henri Cartier-Bresson's "decisive moment" is like thinking we'll only recognize a plate of peas if the peas spell out the word "peas." Director H.S. Miller thinks he's made something broodingly visionary when you're more likely to be aesthetically shaken up by one of Mad magazine's Fold-Ins.
Da The Los Angeles Times, 1 maggio 2008
Il diario percettivo di Gabriele Salvatores (III)
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