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Black Dahlia, The

 

USA 2006, 121 minutes
Dir. Brian De Palma
Genres: Suspense/Crime / Film Noir

 

Aroview: Seething with atmosphere, this noir crime-drama (based on James Ellroy's novel) presents a complicated case of the unsolved Hollywood murder of aspiring actress Elizabeth ‘Black Dahlia’ Short in the 1940s.

A leisurely pace allows dir. DePalma to examine a three-way flirtatious relationship between the investigators (and ex-boxing rivals) Hartnett and Eckhart alongside Scarlett Johannson. The film looks great and digs up plenty of greed, lust and murder but lacks the emotional vulnerability to match as the plot zig-zags from lesbian nightclubs to homicide investigations.

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