THE FACE OF AN ANGEL – Review by MaryAnn Johanson
Let’s be perfectly clear: The Face of an Angel is most definitely not the story of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, who was killed in Perugia, Italy, in 2007, or the story of her roommate, American student Amanda Knox, who was tried and convicted of the crime. Well, it is that story. But it isn’t, either. It’s both and neither at the same time. Okay, look: British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom is back in the metafictional world he has visited before, and this time he’s struggling to figure out how to tell a story about a real-life crime for which — as his avatar laments here — neither the innocence nor the guilt of the accused makes any sense. Read more>>