Hopperesque

Hopperesque

Tuesday 3 January 2012

Detour


Anyone who is a fan of real Noir already knows this movie and loves it. Everything from the low-budget set goofs and awkward plot developments add to the mystique which it has developed over the years.











          Made in 1945 by Austrian director Edgar G. Ulmer in a short period of just a few days it has all the doom-laden style that many far more expensive attempts couldn't achieve to such a great degree. Geoff McNab said it embodied the 'Warped nightmarish feeling of a Kafka story' and Roger Ebert described it as the ' Guilty soul of Film Noir' adding that 'Nobody who sees it forgets it'.

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