Based on the same material that Sean Penn would later use for ‘The Pledge,’ the 1990 film is receiving its first U.S. release.
without the jokes or the colorful characters — or the color. Shot in gripping black-and-white, the film unfolds in remote towns in thickly forested mountains where evil hangs in the air, and its narrative revolves around a murdered 8-year-old girl. The source material,It Happened in Broad Daylight
Fehér’s 1990 feature is one of seven subsequent film versions to date, among them Sean Penn’s 2001 feature. That Jack Nicholson starrer, chock-full of ultra-starry cameos, maintained Dürrenmatt’s bleak outlook, and a familiarity with it could help parse some of the unexplained relationships in. But for all their connective tissue, the two film’s differences are stark and instructive. It’s the contrast between art house and Hollywood, between stripped-down and ginned-up.
The inspector interviews the peddler as a witness, not as the prime suspect the other police have decided he is. There’s bloodlust in the air: The townspeople, arrayed around the police station like zombies, hunger for a decisive punishment but not necessarily the truth. Pauer is especially unsettling when the peddler, surrounded by cops who have convinced themselves he’s guilty, smiles.
Most disturbing are two separate sequences that center on a young girl being interrogated — different girls, different questioners. The way the camera holds each child in tight close-up, one of them silent, the other squirming and whispering her responses, and the way each man holds each girl, blurs the line between attentive focus and seduction, between protection and peril, and gives frightening form to the medical man’s dark certainty about evil that can’t be vanquished.
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