2011 · comedy · crime · true-story
Bernie
Directed by Richard Linklater1h 39m2011
In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour attitude. When she becomes controlling and abusive, Bernie goes to great lengths to remove himself from her grasp.
Our read: Bernie (2011) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · crime · true-story entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
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“You want a quirky Texas true-crime comedy told like a gossipy documentary.”
Skip it tonight — Dark murder played for laughs will feel wrong if you want straight crime.
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