This World, Then the Fireworks (1996)
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 100m
Director: Michael Oblowitz
Cast: Billy Zane, Gina Gershon, Sheryl Lee, Will Patton
Synopsis:
A brother and sister witness violent death at an early age and grow up into incestuously complicit killers, 'seuls contre tous'. Their callous disregard for other people leads to their replicating the fates of the parents.
Review:
If ever a genre was fit for moral questioning it was the 'noir', but here the adoption of the antihero as narrator lends a delirious unreality to the turbid eroticism and mayhem. A cinema of extreme emotional states rather than narrative cogency; disturbing in its details, if over deterministic in its rationale.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 100m
Director: Michael Oblowitz
Cast: Billy Zane, Gina Gershon, Sheryl Lee, Will Patton
Synopsis:
A brother and sister witness violent death at an early age and grow up into incestuously complicit killers, 'seuls contre tous'. Their callous disregard for other people leads to their replicating the fates of the parents.
Review:
If ever a genre was fit for moral questioning it was the 'noir', but here the adoption of the antihero as narrator lends a delirious unreality to the turbid eroticism and mayhem. A cinema of extreme emotional states rather than narrative cogency; disturbing in its details, if over deterministic in its rationale.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 100m
Director: Michael Oblowitz
Cast: Billy Zane, Gina Gershon, Sheryl Lee, Will Patton
Synopsis:
A brother and sister witness violent death at an early age and grow up into incestuously complicit killers, 'seuls contre tous'. Their callous disregard for other people leads to their replicating the fates of the parents.
Review:
If ever a genre was fit for moral questioning it was the 'noir', but here the adoption of the antihero as narrator lends a delirious unreality to the turbid eroticism and mayhem. A cinema of extreme emotional states rather than narrative cogency; disturbing in its details, if over deterministic in its rationale.