Film
Out of Blue (15)
Dir. Carol Morley, UK, 2018, 110 mins.
Cast. Patricia Clarkson, James Caan, Jacki Weaver.
Recovering alcoholic Detective Mike Hoolihan (Clarkson) is called out to the scene of a possible homicide at an observatory where an expert on black holes has been shot. Some of the facts in the case bear remarkable similarity to unsolved murders from the past and every new piece of information seems to take Mike further away from understanding the crime. Adapted from Martin Amis’ Night Train, Morley has created a moody detective story with heart and soul. In Mike, Morley delivers yet another compellingly idiosyncratic female character and Clarkson’s brilliant performance mines the vulnerability and longing under the detective-issue stoicism.
Cast. Patricia Clarkson, James Caan, Jacki Weaver.
Recovering alcoholic Detective Mike Hoolihan (Clarkson) is called out to the scene of a possible homicide at an observatory where an expert on black holes has been shot. Some of the facts in the case bear remarkable similarity to unsolved murders from the past and every new piece of information seems to take Mike further away from understanding the crime. Adapted from Martin Amis’ Night Train, Morley has created a moody detective story with heart and soul. In Mike, Morley delivers yet another compellingly idiosyncratic female character and Clarkson’s brilliant performance mines the vulnerability and longing under the detective-issue stoicism.
