The Face of an Angel

Kate Beckinsale, Daniel Brühl and Cara Delevingne star in this dramatic-thriller, a fictionalised version of the notorious Amanda Knox murder case. From director Michael Winterbottom (The Trip, 24 Hour Party People).

"In 2007, a twenty-one-year-old British student named Meredith Kercher was brutally murdered in Perugia, Italy. Suspicions turned almost immediately to her American flatmate, Amanda Knox. The ensuing arrests, trial, and convictions — which involved Knox's Italian boyfriend, a bar owner, and a young drifter originally from Ivory Coast — made for a major international story and occupied immense tabloid space. Michael Winterbottom has used the famous case, changing all the names in the process, as the jumping-off point...

"Winterbottom tells this tale from the perspective of a filmmaker who wants to make a movie based on a book about the murder. Thomas (Brühl) provides an outsider's point of view as he enters the scene and begins to interview people wrapped up in the case, including the American journalist who wrote the book (Beckinsale), and locals who knew the victim and her suspected killer." (Toronto International Film Festival)

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