The Judge and the Assassin
HistoryCrimeDrama
France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and murders many teenagers over years. The judge Rousseau captures him, but to serve his ambition seeks to avoid that Bouvier is simply declared insane.
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A grim, unflinching look at a dark period. It feels like a cold, damp autumn day, with a pervasive sense of dread and moral ambiguity hanging heavy in the air. The film is a stark, unvarnished examination of humanity's worst impulses.
bleakgrittysomberunsettlingslow-burnperiod dramaneo-realismarthousejusticemadnesssocietal decayambition
asylumserial killer19th century
