True crime, bizarre crime, a San Diego matricide committed with a prop sword from a regional production of a Greek tragedy. The perpetrator — the sole survivor of a white-water-rapids expedition in Peru — is an amalgam of oddities (pet flamingos, visions of God, a pseudonym of Farouk, etc.), and the flashback structure reveals nothing but more oddness, the life’s blood of the self-indulgent filmmaker, Werner Herzog: a dwarf, an ostrich farm, etc. Dismal image from cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger, unsupportive of the line, “Look how beautiful San Diego is. It’s like the City of God.” Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny, Udo Kier, Grace Zabriskie, Michael Peña, Brad Dourif, Irma Hall, Loretta Devine. (2010) — Duncan Shepherd
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