Fabulous new entry in series by a man who keeps making the same kind of meditational films but strives to approach the material differently. Here, after silent credits, an unusual blues score takes over, often acting against the material when it later presents thriller-like scenes - which aren't cut like thrillers. In fact the cool observation of murders makes me think of a director with whom I'm hardly acquainted (but must become moreso) Claude Chabrol.
Beautifully set up in the script and story ('murder', you notice, is mentioned very early on).
Has wonderfully ironic scenes such as when the talented Emma Stone works out how the murder might have taken place while murderer Joaquin Phoenix is sat next to her, opposite Betsy Aidem and Ethan Phillips. With Jamie Blackley, Parker Posey. The ending is a doozy.
Shot in widescreen again by Darius Khondji with design by Loquasto (a mere 72 - Radio Days was their first collaboration) and Lepselter editing.
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