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
Christian Bale investigates a series of gruesome murders in 1830 Hudson Valley, N.Y., in Scott Cooper s "The Pale Blue Eye," an adaptation of Louis Bayard s 2003 novel of the same name. It s a film based on some really good material, that takes place in an intriguing setting, and that sports a terrific cast who click right into place. Yet despite the many things it has going for it, "The Pale Blue Eye" can never quite get out of second gear.