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"THE PALE BLUE EYE" (2022) Directed by Scott Cooper #christianbale #movies
“The boundaries which divide life and death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends, and the other begins?”
So begins my first new film of 2023, a gothic horror thriller whodunit (what a combination!) directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Black Mass, Hostiles) in his sixth outing in the directors chair. Based upon the 2003 book of the same name written by Louis Bayard, the opening ten minutes lays before you the central narrative of the film wrapped in a brilliant ensemble cast in a New York of 1830 enveloped in a mid-winter deep in snow that I immediately drew comparisons with the cold, bleakness of Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, the gothic darkness of Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow and with a central character in the guise of Edgar Allan Poe, I was also immediately drawn to the James McTeigue directed The Raven from 2012.
The problem is The Pale Blue Eyes has a number of exceedingly good parts but a rather disappointing whole.
The above introduction is taken from my spoiler free review of "The Pale Blue Eye" originally penned and posted to my Medium blog site on 10th January 2023 and the review can be read for free and in full via my Substack site linked immediately below:
https://ramblingmusings666.substack.com/p/the-pale-blue-eye-2022-e703d37774da
This spoiler free review can also be found within my 7 volume set of "essential film reviews collection" that can be read for free should you have a Kindle "Unlimited" package:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C4HZSTTH?ref_=dbs_p_pwh_rwt_anx_a_lnk&storeType=ebooks
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