NEW YORK (OSV News) The idea of incorporating iconic author Edgar Allan Poe, the inventor of the modern detective story, into a whodunit would seem like a winning one. And so it proved for writer Louis Bayard whose 2003 mystery novel The Pale Blue Eye did just that to widespread praise.
In adapting Bayard s work for the screen, moreover, writer-director Scott Cooper, whose eponymous film is currently streaming on Netflix, gets things off to a promising start. He successfully evokes a go
Director and writer Scott Cooper ("Hostiles", 2017) creates a sustained melancholy in this 19th century gothic mystery based on the 2006 novel of the same name.
Now on Netflix, the historical mystery “The Pale Blue Eye” stars Christian Bale as a drunk detective and Harry Melling as a famous author whose name you no doubt recognize. Nathan Weinbender investigates Scott Cooper’s latest historical drama.