Sunday, 27 May 2012

Reflections of the past


Dead Again (1991)

Directed by Kenneth Branagh he also stars in this film alongside Emma Thompson, Andy Garcia and Derek Jacobi. A young woman with amnesia is haunted by the past and is helped by a private detective.

Clearly influenced by film noir this psychological thriller does a good job of capturing the tone of film noir in the sections set in the past and does have a hint of Hitchcock about it. The plot is pretty much mystic rubbish but does have an interesting twist towards the end. It is strange to hear Branagh and Thompson affecting American accents but they do so pretty well, it is the make used to make Andy Garcia old that is the only real let down in the execution of the film.

4/5

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