Review: Christian Bale, as an ex-cop looking for a killer, headlines this murder mystery, but Harry Melling steals the show as his sidekick Edgar Allan Poe
,” brings a methodical intensity to the character of Gus, who is plagued by demons, as movie detectives so often are. Edgar, on the other hand, is a morbid poet, albeit one whom Melling endows with an air that is both louche and impish. Melling’s scenery-chewing portrayal of the budding writer — and, here, amateur gumshoe — is one of the film’s chief delights. Aided by a wig and makeup, Melling also bears an uncanny physical resemblance to the writer, through his portrayal avoids cliche.
In supporting roles, Toby Jones, Timothy Spall, Gillian Anderson, Charlotte Gainsbourg and an almost unrecognizable Robert Duvall, playing an expert in the occult, are all reliably entertaining.But there is at times a sense to the film that you are watching an overdressed B-movie, especially as the plot veers more deeply into the territory of the supernatural — or at least as the workings of the world are imagined by some of the story’s more credulous characters.
Where “The Pale Blue Eye” succeeds best is in the way it shows how Edgar — yet to become the writer of ghoulish, moody atmosphere and delicious morbidity we remember — got some of his enduring ideas about the coexistence of depravity and beauty. The movie only stumbles when it succumbs, here and there, to the more trivial tropes and jump scares of the contemporary thriller.At Landmark’s Atlantic Plumbing Cinema; also available on Netflix.
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