2009 · crime
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Directed by Werner Herzog2h 2m2009
Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.
Our read: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) reads as a sombre, steady, surreal crime entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured crime, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
- signature
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