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Bringing Darkness to light (noir documentary)


Bringing Darkness to light (part of the Documentary, 2006)

Film Noir burrows into the mind; it's disorienting, intriguing and enthralling. Noir brings us into a gritty underworld of lush morbidity, providing intimate peeks at its tough, scheming dames, mischievous misfits and flawed men - all caught in the wicked web of a twisted fate. Christopher Nolan comparing "Detour" to "Citizen Kane". "Out of the past", Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer remembers Jacques Tourneur's advices to perform her femme fatale role. Robert Ryan and Cleo Moore in "On dangerous ground", Claire Trevor in "Born to Kill", etc.