With Bernie, Richard Linklater crafts a true-crime black comedy only he could make
At the end of an experimental decade, director Richard Linklater returned to a story that had been rattling around his brain since the ‘90s. Written by Skip Hollandsworth for Texas Monthly, the 1998 article “Midnight In The Garden Of East Texas ” follows a mortician, known throughout the town of Carthage as the kindest and gentlest man around, and the widely disliked 85-year-old millionaire widow he gunned down and stuffed in a freezer.
“He was a shopaholic,” one townsperson diagnoses. To accommodate these POVs, Linklater employs a mockumentary style. But the movie isn’t aiming for the faux-realism of This Is Spinal Tap; it’s attempting to muddy the truth of the situation, blending fact and fiction. By casting actual townspeople and local actors, Linklater imbues these interviews with an authentic charisma different from mannered Hollywood actors, which is why McConaughey’s sudden appearance is so jarring.
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