“SMALL TOWN MURDER SONGS” My rating: C+
75 minutes | No MPAA rating
“Small Town Murder Songs” is the sort of minimalist effort I feel I should like more than I actually do.
Ed Gass-Donnelly’s Canadian murder mystery evokes memories of films by Atom Egoyan and other practitioners of Great Northern ennui. It’s small, claustrophobic and at times too self-consciously artsy for its own good.
Yet it has a genuinely sad and disturbing central performance by Swedish actor Peter Stormare (he was the thug operating the wood-chipper in “Fargo”). (more…)
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