Edelstein on Blue Caprice: To Capture a Character's Alienation, Must a Filmmaker Alienate Us Too?

Alexandre Moors's impressionistic noir Blue Caprice takes its title from the old car driven in 2002 by the Beltway snipers John Allen Muhammad and his surrogate teenage son, Lee Boyd Malvo. It's also the basis of the film's palette (pale, shivery) and pervading sense of aimlessness. There's a lot of ... More