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Out of the Blue

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Out of the Blue
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1hr 42min
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2006
Distributor:
IFC
Synopsis: Out of the Blue, New Zealand writer-director Robert Sarkies' long-awaited follow-up to his 1999 feature debut Scarfies, recreates the events that led up to and surrounded David Gray's November 13, 1990, mass murder of 13 locals in the town of Aramoana, New Zealand. Sarkies, however, approaches the material not as exploitation or as an action picture, but -- like Terrence Malick in his 1973 true crime picture Badlands -- as an understated and detached drama. Sarkies uses a contemplative and reflective ... Full Synopsis
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The director confronts horror without wallowing in it, a strategy befitting a film that’s not about how people die, but how they live. Full Review
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70
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out of 100
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