.

.

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

The Element of Crime (1984)

A Danish crime film noir directed by Lars von Trier, starring Michael Elphick.
A detective is hypnotized and tells a story to the therapist. He was trying to solve a series of murders by following his mentor's advice and following the path of the killer.
All red video is difficult to rate with a different colored review. The plot and characters would have been more interesting if the visual aspect had not hurt my eyes so badly. The camera-work would have looked good in any other color scheme. Wikipedia says that it was shot in sodium lights. This won lots of awards, but I don't see why (pun). I rate it the most frequent color on screen: a red, bad rating. There are much better (not horrible) Lars von Trier films to watch instead of this.

No comments:

Post a Comment