In the Electric Mist

In the Electric Mist

2009 · 117 min · EN · R · 6.0 (490 votes)
Dir. Bertrand Tavernier · Starring Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard, Mary Steenburgen, Kelly Macdonald, Justina Machado · Music Marco Beltrami

“NO ONE CAN ESCAPE THE SINS OF THE PAST”

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Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. When the star of the film, Elrod Sykes, reports finding another corpse in the Atchafalaya Swamp near the movie set, Robicheaux starts another investigation, believing the corpse to be the remains of a black man whose murder he witnessed 35 years earlier.

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A spectral, humid atmosphere hangs heavy over this Louisiana bayou mystery. Ghosts of the past bleed into the present, blurring lines between reality and hallucination. It's a brooding, atmospheric descent into memory and guilt.

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