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The Murder

BY Cristian Smeu - ROMANIA   September 05, 2008 10:09

Review: Sultry and unnerving, this Romanian film has the feeling of Almodovar playing Hitchcock. As a woman framed in low-slung canted angles cooks her final meal, she chews at her lips, in a telephone kiss-off to her ex lover. A vibrant color scheme and bizarre editing patterns wreak extreme tension: even when this femme fatale’s alive, she’s already dead.

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