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They follow the lead of Joel and Ethan Coen's Blood Simple (1984), which targeted as its audience the cinema intelligentsia bored with both the languid pace of European festival films and the exhausted formulas of Hollywood. These moviegoers want a little kick with their chic. To their rescue ride the art- house outlaws...
...Nathan Leopold (Craig Chester) and Richard Loeb (Daniel Schlachet), two rich young homosexuals, murdered the child Bobby Franks, they were creating a portrait of themselves: powerful elitists, unsullied by the vulgarity of conscience. Director Kalin -- a comer -- is smart enough not to explain the murderers. Instead, in a chiaroscuro cinema style that suggests morgue photos taken by Cecil Beaton, he presents the pair as stars of their own camp pageant, a sickly sweet deb ball, where the revelers dance all night on the bodies of their inferiors, then wake up to find their dreams in chains...
Coolidge Corner Cinema. 390 Harvard St.,Brookline. 734-2500. Adam's Rib on Thursday, Nov.12 at 7 p.m. Laws of Gravity on Thursday, Nov. 12at 8:55 p.m. Pepi, Luci, Bom on Thursday, Nov. 12at 9:40 p.m. Memoirs of a River on Thursday, Nov.12 at 7 p.m. The Panama Deception on Thursday,Nov. 12 at 5 p.m. Poison Ivy on Thursday, Nov. 12at 5:05 p.m. Simple Men and Hooray for Underdogopen on Friday...
...CINEMA: Disney's Magic-Carpet Ride...
...CINEMA Waterland isn't simple, but it's weirdly compelling...