(Drivebycuriosity) - If you are into funny and dark crime flicks and subscribed to Netflix then I recommend to watch the movie "Cut Bank". Only available there through November 30!
- A
couple watches a murder. This starts a chain of bloody & hilarious
events. I won't tell more about the plot of the movie "Cut Bank" (this is a spoiler free blog), but you can expect there a lot of surprises and twists which make the film very enjoyable (imdb). The name refers to a remote and (usually) sleepy place in the US where the film is set.
Director Matt Shakman & script writer Roberto Patino did a fine job. They follow the tradition of bloody, dark and goofy comedies like "Fargo" and "11:14" (imdb).
Strange characters are doing bad or stupid things which brings them
into trouble. Violence and funny scenes are frequently trading places.
I enjoyed the great John Malkovich as an overstrained backwater sherif and Billy Bob Thornton as local businessman and would be father in law. Oliver Platt as postal inspector "from the capital city" also was fun to watch. But the star of the movie is Michael Stuhlbarg
as the inscrutable "Derby Milton", a character which will stay in the
memories of his audience for a while. Unfortunately the usually lovely Teresa Palmer
got constrained by her role as an extremely naive bumbling country
girl who is too much obsessed with her Yahoo boyfriend. As comfort above
one of her better portraits.
"Cut Bank" is one of the best black comedies of the recent years and highly recommend for connoisseurs of the genre.
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