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Directed by Tom Kalin
In 1924, Nathan Leopold, Jr. and Richard Loeb, gay collegiate lovers, murdered a child for the thrill. Objects of fascination and disgust for years afterward, their story has been told on film without acknowledgment of their sexuality. Tom Kalin’s seductive narrative declines to hide or apologize for anything. Unfolding like a film noir, it depicts sexuality as mysterious and the murderous impulse as a metaphorical extension of sexual drives.
Producer: Christine Vachon. Screenwriter/Editor: Tom Kalin. Cinematographer: Ellen Kuras. Cast: Daniel Schlachet, Craig Chester, Ron Vawter, Michael Kirby, Michael Stumm.
Digital video, b/w, 95 min.
