A man is killing children and using modern forensics techniques, the police are after him.
That's the story of M...which regrettably tells a tale that remains all too familiar today.
Featuring a haunting performance by a much younger Peter Lorre, this film follows the chase as the killings mount and the police draw closer to their suspect.
Though the Fritz Lang who made this film lacked the same kind of resources he had when making his epic masterpiece Metropolis, the sparseness of special effects (including sound, then itself considerd a special effect) actually works in favor of the piece's realite and only serves to make it all the more chilling.
If art is something that evokes a response in all who see it, then perhaps great art is art that continues to perform its artistic mission even generations after its creators are gone.
M is therefore great art. And this reproduction is a must see, even over the last Criterion release of the same film.Get more detail about M (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray].
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