Bruno Reidal: Confession of a Murderer(HKIFF46)

In the French countryside of 1901, a young seminarian murders a 13-year-old boy and turns himself in to the police. Interrogated by a panel of doctors, he is forced to recount, at length, his young life leading up to the fateful crime. A chilling and exacting portrait of a murderer – carried by Doré’s revelatory performance – Le Port’s methodical breakthrough is a powerful evocation of the conditions of French peasantry, the inner workings of psychopathy, and the early days of criminal profiling. Based on a true story.