Simon Killer (2012)
Directed by Antonio Campos
A recent college graduate flees to Paris after a break-up, where his involvement with a prostitute begins to reveal a potentially dark recent past.
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From “Martha Marcy May Marlene” to “Simon Killer” and this year’s “Christine,” these filmmakers have fixated on probing the subjective experiences of alienated characters.
Pesce is a next-generation addition to the collective at Borderline Films, whose Sean Durkin, Antonio Campos, and Josh Mond are responsible for some of the most exciting American art films of the past decade — visionary hybrids of character sketch and genre exercise like “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” “Afterschool,” “Simon Killer,” and “James White.”
This film comes from Borderline Films, a production company that’s mastered the art of tortured souls in past Sundance fare like Martha Marcy May Marlene , Simon Killer and James White .
Strange, violent and justifiably messy considering the murky environment in which the narrative is trapped, The Devil All the Time is an impressive segue from the maudlin (meant as a compliment), intimate parameters defining early works like Afterschool (2008), the vibrant Simon Killer (2012) and the sublimely potent 2016 film Christine (read review).
Through his films Afterschool, Simon Killer, and Christine he has shown with greater detail the societal and personal factors which drive people to kill.
Certainly fun has never figured too prominently in the bone-chilling work of Antonio Campos, an independent filmmaker who made his name with realist horror films like “Afterschool” (2008) and “Simon Killer” (2012) and most recently directed the excellent psychological drama “Christine” (2016).
Directed by Antonio Campos (Christine and Simon Killer, who also co-wrote with Paulo Campos), The Devil All the Time leans heavily into the more Southern Gothic aspects of its presentation and performances.
Antonio Campos ( Afterschool , Simon Killer , Christine ) has done an incredible job of building not just a world but a snapshot of an era, a sunbaked parish of dusty poverty that’s peopled by violent and desperate men.
With films including Afterschool, Simon Killer and Christine, Campos has specialized in portraits of violently disturbed people that present their characters without moral outrage.