Swoon
Killer Films 30th Anniversary
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1h 33m
Directed by Tom Kalin | 94 mins | 1992
Tom Kalin’s coruscating debut returns to the scene of the infamous Leopold and Loeb murder case, likewise a key inspiration for Hitchcock’s Rope, but in this telling the unspoken homosexual undercurrent of the crime is put boldly front and center. A heavily stylized work, shot in austere yet sensuous black and white and set in a deliberately anachronistic 1920’s Chicago, "Swoon" placed Kalin alongside Todd Haynes, Gregg Araki, and Christine Vachon at the New Queer Cinema’s vanguard.
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