Sharp deception
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Sharp deception |
| Original title | Deceiver / Liar |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Jonas Godfather Josh Godfather |
| script | Jonas Godfather, Josh Godfather |
| production |
Mark Damon Peter Glatzer |
| music | Harry Gregson-Williams |
| camera | Bill Butler |
| cut | Dan Lebental |
| occupation | |
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Sharp deception (original title: Deceiver or Liar ) is an American crime film with Chris Penn , Tim Roth and Renée Zellweger from 1997. Jonas Pate and Josh Pate , who are also authors of the screenplay, directed.
action
The two halves of the body of the murdered prostitute Elizabeth are found in two locations several miles apart in Charleston , South Carolina . Police officers Edward Kennesaw and Phillip Braxton are leading the investigation. The entrepreneur's son James Walter Wayland, whose phone number was found on the dead, is the only witness. During the interrogation, Wayland admits to having met the dead woman in the park that night, but claims never to have seen her again afterwards.
The extremely intelligent Wayland, who is well educated through his psychology degree, who suffers from temporal lobe epilepsy , leads the investigators on the wrong track. After he was able to manipulate the polygraph tests during the first interrogations under the influence of drugs , after three days of interrogation he shows a video cassette on which Edward Kennesaw and Elizabeth can be seen together. Kennesaw forces the prostitute to play his wife.
When confronted with this videotape, Detective Edward Kennesaw agrees to subject himself to a polygraph test, which gives ambiguous results. Kennesaw calmly denies the question of whether he is Elizabeth's killer. He becomes restless when Wayland asks if Kennesaw murdered his wife. But his wife is alive.
Kennesaw then puts Wayland under pressure until he admits to have found the murdered Elizabeth and dismembered in order to divert suspicion. He still denies a murder. Shortly thereafter, he passed out after swallowing two pills to provoke a faint ; his death is falsely determined.
A year later, the living Wayland appears in a park and speaks to a woman.
background
The film was shot in Charleston , South Carolina . It celebrated its film premiere at the Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 1997. In the United States it was first seen on January 30, 1998. In Germany it started on August 6, 1998, in Switzerland one day later. On the opening weekend of the film in the US played 280,000 with 211 copies of about US dollar one. In total, revenues of around $ 572,000 were posted in the USA. Almost 13,800 viewers were counted at the German box office.
criticism
James Berardinelli described the film on ReelViews as claustrophobic and compared it to the works of David Mamet .
Roger Ebert compared the film in the Chicago Sun-Times of January 30, 1998 with the thriller The Usual Suspects and with the films of Quentin Tarantino .
Felix Seifert from Schnitt.de praises the three main actors, but at the same time criticizes the two directors: "The godfather brothers' second film (after their debut" The Grave ") is in parts a victim of its own ambitions: Too many - undoubtedly good - ideas and Storylines are squeezed into 100 minutes. […] The ideas are introduced in a great atmosphere […], but rarely brought to an integral end. Waylands' game of confusion about lies and truth becomes a game of confusion for the audience. [...] Otherwise, »Liar« is fun and gives hope for the future of the godparents. "
Awards
Jonas Pate and Josh Pate won an award at the Stockholm International Film Festival in 1997 for the script , which was also won by Bill Butler for the cinematography. Jonas Pate and Josh Pate also won the Special Jury Prize of the Festival du Film Policier de Cognac .
Web links
- Deceiver in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Deceiver at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Locations according to the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ a b c Start dates according to the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ a b c Budget and box office results according to the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Film review , James Berardinelli , 1998
- ^ Film Review , Chicago Sun-Times , Roger Ebert , January 30, 1998
- ↑ movie review , Schnitt.de, Felix Seifert
- ↑ a b Awards according to the Internet Movie Database