Killing Oswald (uncertificated) 102 mins **
The week’s other item of
JFK ephemera is a decidedly special-interest doc that strays into conspiracy
theory in trying to unpick Lee Harvey Oswald’s backstory: a complex,
still-murky tangle of links with the FBI, CIA and Cuban dissident groups.
Director Shane O’Sullivan ventures some scholarly digging into the archives,
emerging with the striking, tableau-like telecast footage of Oswald’s
assassination by Jack Ruby, yet his editorial line proves generally prosaic and
unimaginative, reliant on authors rehashing arguments already proposed
elsewhere and stiff reconstructions that only bury Oswald as an ongoing person
of interest.
Killing Oswald opens in selected cinemas from today.
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