Investigation of a Citizen Under Suspicion: Du Welz Revisits Bungled Belgian Murder Case
“It is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities; but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!,’ wrote Comte de Lautreamont, aka Isidore Lucien Ducasse, the French poet famed for his Surrealist poetic novel Les Chants de Maldoror. It’s perhaps one of the less sensational or bizarre phrases from Lautreamont, the menacing essence of his iconic protagonist hanging like a slinky subtextual shadow over Maldoror, the latest narrative film from Belgium’s foremost arthouse genre auteur, Fabrice du Welz. But it’s the sentiment at the heart of his latest film, which most certainly deals with human ruination.… Read the rest
