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26 September 2005 (USA)
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Vincke and Verstuyft are the best detectives of the Antwerp police department. They are confronted with the murder on a leading executive and put all their effort to catch the murderer. full summary | add synopsis
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Noirish police story as twisted as the killer's mind
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Laurien Van den Broeck | ... | Bieke Cuypers | |
| Dirk Roofthooft | ... | Vader Cuypers | |
| Koen De Bouw | ... | Eric Vincke | |
| Werner De Smedt | ... | Freddy Verstuyft | |
| Hilde De Baerdemaeker | ... | Linda de Leenheer | |
| Geert Van Rampelberg | ... | Tom Coemans | |
| Jan Decleir | ... | Angelo Ledda | |
| Patrick Descamps | ... | Gilles Resnais | |
| Anne-Caroline Suberville | ... | Dienster | |
| Jan Dyck | ... | Taxi Driver | |
| Miek Van Bocxtaele | ... | Receptionist (as Miek Van Bocxstaele) | |
| Deborah Ostrega | ... | Anja | |
| Gene Bervoets | ... | Seynaeve | |
| Els Dottermans | ... | Eva Van Camp | |
| Lucas van den Eijnde | ... | Bob Van Camp |
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Also Known As:
La mémoire du tueur (Belgium: French title)
The Alzheimer Affair (International: English title)
The Alzheimer Case (International: English title)
The Memory of a Killer (USA)
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The Alzheimer Affair (International: English title)
The Alzheimer Case (International: English title)
The Memory of a Killer (USA)
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Rated R for violence, sexuality and nudity.
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123 min | Belgium:135 min (director's cut)
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Argentina:16 |
Belgium:KT |
Iceland:16 |
South Korea:15 |
Netherlands:12 |
Germany:16 |
Sweden:15 |
USA:R
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Cameo: [Jef Geeraerts]the writer of the novel can be seen on a bench at the police department.
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Anachronisms: Although the movie is set in 1995, some of the mobile phone are clearly more recent models.
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This Belgian film was titled "The Memory of A Killer" when it played in Austin in September. Known in Europe as "The Alzheimer Case," it's a police procedural about an aging hit man with early Alzheimer's who agrees to complete what he knows is his last assignment. Movies featuring a character with Alzheimer's are often somber, bittersweet weepers. "The Memory of a Killer" is nothing like that.
It's a taut, fast-paced noir with a protagonist who lives by the same code as that of Alain Delon in Jean Pierre Melville's "Le Samourai" or Jean Gabin in "Touchez Pas Au Grisbi." The hit man Angelo Ledda is portrayed by Belgian actor Jan Decleir. He won his country's top acting award and other European festival honors for his nuanced, empathic performance.
How Ledda knows what's happening to his mind is explained in a way totally credible to anyone who has known someone suffering from this disease. Even as his mind slips away, he retains his morality about certain crimes and that code eventually sends him in directions that surprise and anger his employer. Ledda's crimes and related crimes drive two police investigators - and Ledda - in a race against time. The plot threads become as tangled and mysterious as the tangles in Ledda's diseased mind and unravel in a stunning conclusion.
This film was made by Belgian director Erik Van Looy, whose stylish work won top honors along with Decleir. The film is based on the novel "De Zaak Alzheimer" by popular Belgian detective novelist Jef Geeraerts. Hopefully, it and his other novels will be translated into English. Geeraerts' psychological approach evokes another Belgian writer, the incomparable Georges Simenon. This is the first of Geeraerts' stories to reach the big screen, and Hollywood has bought the rights to a remake. Don't wait; see the original. Decleir's portrayal should not be missed.