Devil’s Knot **
Dir: Atom
Egoyan. With: Reece Witherspoon, Colin Firth, Dane DeHaan. 114 mins. Cert: 15
Atom Egoyan’s tricky
transition to the mainstream continues: this Weinstein-produced assignment
slogs dutifully through the least ambiguous take yet on the
miscarriage-of-justice that provoked Amy Berg’s West of Memphis, among other documentaries. Reece Witherspoon is
given a feathercut and scattered Oscar-reel moments as a blowsy bereaved
mother, Colin Firth a permanently furrowed brow as the investigator defending
three teenage Satanists. Largely an afterthought, it’s too grim for multiplex
consumption, but semi-interesting as an auteurist test case: so full of identifiable
Egoyanisms (video, lost children, Elias Koteas) as to resemble 1994’s risky,
unsettling Exotica recut into the
perfunctory shape of the afternoon TV movie.
Devil's Knot opens in cinemas nationwide today.
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