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...soon in the thrall, of a lovely mankiller (Ashley Judd). This murky mystery steals from Lolita and from many Hitchcock films (notably Vertigo)--but learns nothing from them, nor from its source novel, the complex thriller by Marc Behm about a detective with a daughter fixation, and a young murderess in search of a father figure. Read the excellent book, skip the incoherent movie, and wish its two attractive leads better luck next time. Odds are they can't have worse...
DIED. WINNIE JUDD, 93, who as a young secretary got off a train with two dead bodies stuffed in her luggage, triggering the sensational 1930s trial that dubbed her the "trunk murderess"; in Phoenix, Ariz. A sanity hearing spared her the death penalty and sent her packing to an Arizona hospital for three decades. Later judged sane, she went to prison, and was released...
Brown nevertheless has won positive reviewson-campus for her portrayal of both male andfemale characters, ranging from her first-yearperformance as the title role in The Visit ofthe Old Lady, her junior year Characterizationof the murderess Charlotte Corday inMarat/Sade, to her more recent incarnationas Oscar Wilde in The Importance of Being Oscarthis past fall...
Besson has a curious fondness for lost girls making their way in a brutal world. In La Femme Nikita his heroine was a drugged-out, teenage murderess- drifter rescued from the guillotine by an intelligence agency and given a new life as an assassin. In The Professional, set in New York City, his subject is a 12-year-old named Mathilda (Natalie Portman), the only member of her family to survive a criminal massacre. She turns to a neighbor for succor. Leon (Jean Reno) is an inarticulate fellow. He drinks milk by the gallon, tenderly cares for a plant that...
...unfair movie, in which the Musketeers can senselessly kill as many people as they want to, and then tell a murderess that she must die for her crimes...