The Face of an Angel review - patchy, scrappy, Amanda Knox-inspired mess

Michael Winterbottom, usually an energetic and interesting film-maker, has sadly made a glib and shallow film inspired by the Amanda Knox legal case What a mess this is - and what a shame. Michael Winterbottom is a film-maker of such restless energy and productivity: he is genuinely interested in ideas. His new film is vaguely inspired by the Amanda Knox case: the American woman who, along with her then boyfriend, was convicted, acquitted, then reconvicted in absentia of murdering British stude...