DARK CRIMES (2016) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Alexandros Avranas
Jim Carrey, Marton Csokas, Charlotte Gainsbourg,
Kati Outinen, Piotr Głowacki, Robert Wieckiewicz
The frequently manic Jim Carrey gives a tense, understated performance as a police detective obsessed with cracking a cold case that involves a sex club, a murder and a writer whose work suggests he knows more than he should. It's a dirty business all around, and nobody, including the detective, is completely innocent. The story's set in an unnamed Eastern European country (it was shot in Poland), and the transition from communism to what comes next is still going on and hangs over everything. A noirish whodunit with a good international cast playing characters trapped in a maze they can never quite escape, going through the motions because there's nothing else they can do. The plot keeps you guessing, the mood is fatalistic, the colors are muted, and even Charlotte Gainsbourg looks burned out.
