Ulu Grosbard's sombre noir revolves around the infamous Black Dahlia murder that gripped 1940s Los Angeles. With Roberts De Niro and Duvall excellent as brothers caught up in the case?respectively, a repressed but ambitious priest, and a hardbitten homicide cop who suspects his sibling knows more than he should?it aims for a dark, sweeping resonance pitched somewhere between Chinatown and L.A. Confidential.
Ulu Grosbard’s sombre noir revolves around the infamous Black Dahlia murder that gripped 1940s Los Angeles. With Roberts De Niro and Duvall excellent as brothers caught up in the case?respectively, a repressed but ambitious priest, and a hardbitten homicide cop who suspects his sibling knows more than he should?it aims for a dark, sweeping resonance pitched somewhere between Chinatown and L.A. Confidential.
