Icarus Films announced
this past week that their next Distrib Films home entertainment release will be
French filmmaker Cédric Anger’s award-winning true-life thriller, Next
Time I’ll Aim for the Heart.
Unless you were one of
the very lucky theatre patrons back in April of 2016 to catch the two-cinema
arthouse release of Anger’s story about the infamous French serial killer —
with a twist — known by the name of Alain Lamare, this film is likely a mystery
to you. Icarus Films solves that
mystery with the DVD debut of Next Time I’ll Aim for the Heart on
Aug. 14.
Back in the 1970s, Paris
was the location of a mysterious killer, who boldly taunted one of his targets
— a young woman who survived — with a note that chillingly concluded with the
phrase, “next time I will aim for the heart …”
The terrifying aspect of
Anger’s story — adapted from Yvan Stefanovitch’s novel, “Un Assassin Au-Dessus
de Tout Soupçon” (roughly translated as “An Assassin Above All Suspicion”) — is
that the killer is a French Constable. Renamed for the film as Franck Neuhart (Guillaume
Canet — Tell No One, Hunting and Gathering, etc.), this police officer
is usually the first one to arrive at the crime scene. He is one sick puppy (with some really
disturbing habits; rituals), who begins with assaults and soon works his way up
to murder.
As the police lay traps
and work to catch “The Killer of the Oise,” they soon have one of those OMG
moments … as Sherlock Holmes is famous for saying, “when you have eliminated
the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth,” and
in this case everything points to the killer as being one of their own!!!
If you only catch one
French-language film this year, make Next Time I’ll Aim For The Heart
that film, especially if you are drawn to thrillers and mysteries. Aug. 14, mark it on you viewing calendar
now.
Next Time I’ll Aim For The Heart is presented in French with English subtitles.
Also on the way to DVD
from Icarus Films is the Aug. 7 DVD debut of documentary filmmaker Wang Bing’s Bitter
Money.
The City of Silk is what
Huzhou is known as. A city with a
population equivalent to that of Chicago, it is just to the west of Shangai on
Lake Tai, and roughly ten percent of the population of the city works in the
garment industry … massive factories (read that as sweatshops) devoted to
clothing, some 18,000 different companies in all.
Filmmaker Wang Bing
introduces us to 15-year old Xiao Min and her cousin as they make the long
train journey to Huzhou. They are
typical of the workforce that literally live — in tenement-like dormitories —
where they work … young, rural and doomed to 12-hour days and little pay.
However, once the
introduction to factory conditions are established, Bing takes us on several
side journeys — almost as if they were dramatic tales all onto themselves. Bitter Money becomes an exposé on
life and working conditions in this bustling industrial city — the City of Silk
— that is every bit as compelling as any dramatic work of fiction.
Bitter Money is presented in Mandarin with English subtitles.
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