Alain Monot
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Jerk
Gisèle Vienne
Jerk is a strange, poetic, funny and dark imaginary reconstitution of crimes carried out by the American serial killer Dean Corll, who, with the aid of two adolescents, David Brooks and Wayne Henley, killed more than twenty boys in the state of Texas in the mid 1970s.
In prison, David Brooks faces his responsibilities and goes back over all the violence of the facts using puppetry. Jerkunashamedly mixes sexuality and violence, in a style of speech worthy of bloody aesthetics. The story, as realist as it is, seems to be at the limits of unreality. The links between fantasy and reality are continually re-examined and our perception of what is real is constantly displaced.