One Hour Photo (2002)
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 96m
Director: Mark Romanek
Cast: Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan
Synopsis:
An employee at a photo processing counter in a shopping mall has for years been doing a young couple's prints and watching their boy grow up, literally by observing the collage of purloined prints in his flat. When the husband has an affair, idolatry turns to vengeful wrath in the mind of our hero.
Review:
Clinical case study which has many grand flourishes but doesn't quite have the courage to present the star as a paedophile manqué. The dénouement, in which he becomes a cross between Peeping Tom and Norman Bates's mother, sits uncomfortably on the rest of the movie, like a guest at a party who has too much to drink and makes a fool of himself.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 96m
Director: Mark Romanek
Cast: Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan
Synopsis:
An employee at a photo processing counter in a shopping mall has for years been doing a young couple's prints and watching their boy grow up, literally by observing the collage of purloined prints in his flat. When the husband has an affair, idolatry turns to vengeful wrath in the mind of our hero.
Review:
Clinical case study which has many grand flourishes but doesn't quite have the courage to present the star as a paedophile manqué. The dénouement, in which he becomes a cross between Peeping Tom and Norman Bates's mother, sits uncomfortably on the rest of the movie, like a guest at a party who has too much to drink and makes a fool of himself.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 96m
Director: Mark Romanek
Cast: Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan
Synopsis:
An employee at a photo processing counter in a shopping mall has for years been doing a young couple's prints and watching their boy grow up, literally by observing the collage of purloined prints in his flat. When the husband has an affair, idolatry turns to vengeful wrath in the mind of our hero.
Review:
Clinical case study which has many grand flourishes but doesn't quite have the courage to present the star as a paedophile manqué. The dénouement, in which he becomes a cross between Peeping Tom and Norman Bates's mother, sits uncomfortably on the rest of the movie, like a guest at a party who has too much to drink and makes a fool of himself.