Product: To Die For (1995)
Rating: 4.0
Dark comedy from decade ago
Ten years ago, I enjoyed To Die For as a brilliant dark comedy that most of the rest of the world just didn't seem to "get." Watching it a decade later on DVD, some of the thrill is lost. It's still a decent black comedy with Nicole Kidman as an absolutely wicked manipulator of a woman, but the laughs I remember just aren't there.I do enjoy the storytelling style. We all know what is going to happen (Kidman is going to hire her teenage lovers to kill he husband), so the director has a challenge of keeping the audience's interest until that point. This is accomplished by unfolding Kidman's career and rise to the top through a series of first-person narratives by the different characters in the story. It's almost as if the family members and friends are being interviewed by a TV news camera after the climax of the story, and the technique is very well done.If you like offbeat, dark cinema, give this one a shot, but don't expect award-winning drama.