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Films
Klawans, Stuart | December 24, 2001 issue

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The article focuses on two motion pictures: "In the Bedroom" and "The Man Who Wasn't There." If someone tells you that "In the Bedroom" is a suspense movie, one should imagine that it is a thriller. The world's been getting its fill of those and more than its fill: stalker and slasher pictures, neo-film noirs and updated police stories, spy stories, international-jewel-thief stories, heart-stopping roller-coaster rides of all kinds. The second film is about a deeply closeted gay man, living in a time and place when it was hard to admit such desires, even to oneself. The film is perfectly, elegantly reticent about its subject matter, as suits both the theme and the tradition of film noir.

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MOTION pictures; IN the Bedroom (Film); MAN Who Wasn't There, The (Film); FILM noir; STALKERS; GAYS; DETECTIVE & mystery films
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