[BITList] criminality and corruption - new orleans?

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criminality and corruption - new orleans?

oh, it's only a film...............................................................!


VENICE (Hollywood Reporter) - Filled with unexpected turns and subversive humor, Werner Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" is a jazzy, entertaining riff on the theme of a cop who spends too much time in a sewer of criminality and corruption.
It's a far cry from Abel Ferrara's 1992 NC-17 film with a similar title, and it will appeal to a different audience. It has a seriously involved performance from Nicolas Cage as a good detective on a downward spiral of drugs and gambling; there is a lot of very black humor; and it develops, somewhat surprisingly, into something suggesting a kind of cheerful pessimism. Herzog has made a piece of mainstream entertainment with quirky particulars, and with Cage's star power, it could see substantial rewards from the domestic and international box office. (First Look Pictures releases it stateside.) The film was greeted at the Venice festival, where it's a competition entry, with much laughter and, at the end, loud, sustained applause.

Veteran TV cop show writer William Finkelstein's screenplay sets the story in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and it allows Herzog to explore the way bad things happen to good people while crooked people prosper.



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