Since Quentin Tarantino made Pulp Fiction, giving episodic formula a success many directors have adopted that style.
Like many Hollywood movies, this too is a serial killer movie but revolves only around death of a single girl. But please do not think this is a typical Hollywood story line. Karen Moncrieff, the Director of Dead Girl uses the five episodic storyline treatments to this film that makes this movie very unique and different.
Episode one: about a Stranger a lady (Toni Collette Little Miss Sunshine fame) who lives with a psycho mother and she is the one who finds the dead girl's body and informs police.
Episode two: about the sister a nurse (Rose Byrne) who while doing a post-mortem of the dead girl's body wrongly realizes that the dead girl is her lost sister Episode three: about a wife (Mary Beth Hurt) of the serial killer who knows about the killings of girls by her husband, but still is so hopelessly attached to serving the husband Episode four: about the mother (Marcia Gay Harden) of the dead girl who tries to bring back her grand daughter from an orphanage Lastly, episode five: about the dead girl (Brittany Murphy) who plays a runaway lesbian prostitute mother, after sexual abuse by her step father, who on her journey to wish her 3 year old daughter for birthday takes a hike on a car of this serial killer.
Karen Moncrieff after her award winning Blue Car, gives another hard hitting, sensitive and truly classical syle of film-making, that could be watched again, only for the brilliance of characterization, content, photographic angles, close-up shots, lights, darkness and diffusion of light.
Good part of the story telling is that it does not use any of the Hollywood movie's clichés especially the one liners (I dis-like them when over-used in every silly scene).
Everyone has acted according to the perfection of Karen's cut. The movie belongs to Karen in its cinematography, musical and background score and sheer excellence of tight execution.
Hats off to this breed of emerging (this is just her second directed film) good Director I hope she promises to deliver such good stuff again.
(Stars 7 out of 10)
Like many Hollywood movies, this too is a serial killer movie but revolves only around death of a single girl. But please do not think this is a typical Hollywood story line. Karen Moncrieff, the Director of Dead Girl uses the five episodic storyline treatments to this film that makes this movie very unique and different.
Episode one: about a Stranger a lady (Toni Collette Little Miss Sunshine fame) who lives with a psycho mother and she is the one who finds the dead girl's body and informs police.
Episode two: about the sister a nurse (Rose Byrne) who while doing a post-mortem of the dead girl's body wrongly realizes that the dead girl is her lost sister Episode three: about a wife (Mary Beth Hurt) of the serial killer who knows about the killings of girls by her husband, but still is so hopelessly attached to serving the husband Episode four: about the mother (Marcia Gay Harden) of the dead girl who tries to bring back her grand daughter from an orphanage Lastly, episode five: about the dead girl (Brittany Murphy) who plays a runaway lesbian prostitute mother, after sexual abuse by her step father, who on her journey to wish her 3 year old daughter for birthday takes a hike on a car of this serial killer.
Karen Moncrieff after her award winning Blue Car, gives another hard hitting, sensitive and truly classical syle of film-making, that could be watched again, only for the brilliance of characterization, content, photographic angles, close-up shots, lights, darkness and diffusion of light.
Good part of the story telling is that it does not use any of the Hollywood movie's clichés especially the one liners (I dis-like them when over-used in every silly scene).
Everyone has acted according to the perfection of Karen's cut. The movie belongs to Karen in its cinematography, musical and background score and sheer excellence of tight execution.
Hats off to this breed of emerging (this is just her second directed film) good Director I hope she promises to deliver such good stuff again.
(Stars 7 out of 10)