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‘Bruno Reidal, Confession Of A Murderer’ Is An Empty, Misguided True Crime Provocation [Cannes Review]

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The rise in popularity of true crime stories has seen the line between genuine investigation and lurid exploitation become increasingly blurred.

With every new Netflix docu-series, podcast episode, and beach-read paperback, content creators are having to go further afield to dig up some crime forgotten to history to recast in a light that often appears oriented for entertainment first, with any richer insights an inadvertent byproduct.

Grappling with where the ethical line needs to be drawn in depicting true crime stories requires an entirely different article, but Vincent Le Port’s “Bruno Reidal, Confession of a Murderer,” for almost every minute of its running time, begs the question of what purpose was served in making the film.

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