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The Black Dahlia (15)
Sep. 16, 2006
One of the pithiest ideas in James Ellroy's LA quartet of Forties- and Fifties-set crime novels is a Hollywood brothel specialising in women who have had their faces altered by plastic surgery to resemble screen goddesses of the time. Today, no one would be at all surprised by such an establishment: the really outré joint would be one that guarantees its staff 100-per-cent surgically unretouched.
But the idea of "hookalikes" in the Forties, casting a lurid reflection on the seemingly untouchable sexuality of that era's stars, is bound to seem sacrilegious - wherein, of course, lies its kick.
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Website: http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/reviews/article1603812.ece
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