The Silent Sinner

How long have we waited to experience a film that boldly lifts its head above the mass of morally upright love stories and tells the ultimate Amour Fou? A downward spiral of theft and murder, with two staggering lovers named Rhett and Scarlett caught in a frenzy of blood and the longing for an escape that can only end in shared death. She is deaf-mute and beautiful, he her silent witness and her voice at the same time. They belong together like weapons and ammunition. Madly in love, they cling to fetish and phobia, driven by desperation and cinematic dreams. With each murder, they draw closer to their desired place by the sea, and their film-charade games become increasingly purposeful. The ending is pure poetry, the journey there an exhilarating dream drawn from the collective memories of cinema—unleashed in a way that American cinema has never achieved, not with »Bonnie and Clyde« nor »Natural Born Killers«.