Word: confessionally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both Kemper and Bunyard had histories of severe mental disorder. At the age of 15, Kemper killed both of his grandparents after deciding he did not want to visit with them any longer. He then called his mother to tell her what he had done and calmly waited for the...
Part of the film's importance is due to the people who made it. Costa-Gavras (Z and The Confession) directed. Yves Montand, star of Costa's last three films, stars here as well, but this time with a twist. Instead of portraying a positive character, Montand here has the...
The other part of the film's importance is due to the politics surrounding it. In Z, Costa-Gavras won the love of the liberal and left intelligentsia for his condemnation of Greek fascism. The liberals stayed with him through the anti-Stalinist Confession, but many further to the left...
(6 of 11) about guilt once God's forgiveness has been obtained. Though Ignatius designed the Exercises for individuals, they were later applied to the group retreats so vividly reconstructed in James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. A certain violence, even a spiritual terrorism, has...
State of Siege, like Costa-Gavras' other work (Z, The Confession), is angry all right, and with cause, but it is also unnecessarily emphatic, too easy and simplistic, and stylistically jazzy past the point of stridency. His movies are like glossy international versions of Dragnet, with a rather different...