{"id":4004,"date":"2015-09-23T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/?p=4004"},"modified":"2015-09-22T13:43:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T18:43:03","slug":"fantastic-fest-2015-preview-day-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2015\/09\/23\/fantastic-fest-2015-preview-day-seven\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Fest 2015 Preview Day Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Art by Chris Bilheimer<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s that time again for my sojourn to Fantastic Fest<\/a>, the annual Alamo Drafthouse week long love letter to horror, fantasy, sci-fi, action and just plain fantastic movies from all around the world. This year\u2019s festival runs from Sept 24-October 1, here in Austin at the South Lamar location.<\/p>\n

As in year\u2019s past, I begin my coverage with a multi-part\/day preview.<\/p>\n

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Fantastic Fest Preview Day Seven<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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L\u2019affaire SK1<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

In the 1990s, Guy Georges killed seven young women in different cities during one of France\u2019s more notorious crime waves. Frederic Teller\u2019s debut recreates the complex events that led to the arrest while also jumping ahead ten year to the trial. At first, rookie detective Frank Magne is given his first assignment, to reread unsolved cases to see if anything was missed. In this case, something was: two murder victims had the same person install a utility. For the next decade, Frank becomes obsessed with finding the killer and fighting corruption inherent in the police bureaucracy, especially after Georges was questioned and released several times over the eight year investigation.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s easy to see SK1 as the \u201cFrench Zodiac,\u201d but Teller goes for a clinical and nearly emotionless docudrama while Fincher dealt with the frustration his main characters encountered while wrestling with the unknown. Teller\u2019s approach is to allow the audience to witness events with nearly no manipulation. One understands how far we\u2019ve come with murder investigations. In the past, crimes scenes were contaminated, footprints were stepped on, and different departments withheld information so they could break the case. The Beast of the Bastille case was the investigation that changed everything in France. After it was over, DNA databases were created that helped solves thousands of cases. SK1, or Serial Killer 1, was the first.L\u2019AFFAIRE SK1 starts with a James Jones quote: \u201cThis force of evil… Where does it come from?\u201d The film itself never really tries to answer this question. Instead, Teller builds with almost no commentary, just recreation that allows the events to speak for themselves. Ultimately, it deals with the force of humanity and the events that elevate us all into a greater society in the face of evil forces. (James Shapiro)<\/p>\n