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- 2004
- R
- Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
- 1 h 33 m
- 2004
- R
- Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
- 1 h 33 m
Summary This documentary provides an insight into the mind of Aileen Wournos (whose story is the basis for the feature film "Monster"), a deeply paranoid yet sympathetic person who lost her mind and killed seven people. (Nick Broomfield)
Directed By: Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill
- 2004
- R
- Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
- 1 h 33 m
- 2004
- R
- Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
- 1 h 33 m
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
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Summary This documentary provides an insight into the mind of Aileen Wournos (whose story is the basis for the feature film "Monster"), a deeply paranoid yet sympathetic person who lost her mind and killed seven people. (Nick Broomfield)
Directed By: Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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78% Positive
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18 Reviews
22% Mixed
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In addition to its own merits as a social and cultural document, Broomfield's film continues the welcome trend of more and more nonfiction movies finding their way to theater screens and attracting wide general audiences.
Engrossing, educational, amusing and disturbing. And who could ask for more than that from a film?
It makes an eloquent case against the death penalty, especially when imposed on the mentally incompetent. For if one thing is clear by the time she went to the execution chamber, it's that Wuornos is barking mad, her eyes wild and vengeful, yet also, on some level, already dead.
Sometimes demure, sometimes funny and other times flat-out crazed, Wuornos was effusive and confrontational when Broomfield filmed her just before her 2002 execution in Florida.
The most damning account of the failure of the criminal justice system in America anyone is ever likely to see.
Wuornos was unambiguous about one thing: She wanted to die. In the end, that's the only assurance the movie provides. It's an odd kind of closure for her and for us.
Broomfield's documentaries present life on the fringes as one long, sick joke. The joke still works, but in Life And Death Of A Serial Killer, it leaves a bitter aftertaste.
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Production Company
Lafayette Films,
Channel 4 Television Corporation
Release Date Jan 9, 2004
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating R
Genres
Awards
Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
International Documentary Association
• 1 Nomination
