Themes: Out For Revenge, Unlikely Criminals, Eccentric Families
Main Cast: Emmanuel Salinger, Myriam Cyr, Marcus Powell
Release Year: 1999
Country: US
Run Time: 85 minutes
Plot
Diane Doniol-Valcroze and Arthur Flam debut with this noirish psychological thriller about an obsessive tailor, recalling the works of David Lynch and The Quay Brothers. Thomas (Emmanuel Salinger) is an anxious young tailor eager to please his clients and his overly critical father. Previous mistakes have made Thomas supremely conscious of measuring fabric properly. Just before the annual ball, Thomas's neurosis boils over into madness, resulting in murder. This film was screened at the 1999 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
Cast
Emmanuel Salinger
Myriam Cyr
Marcus Powell
Peter McRobbie
Credit
Peter Levin - Art Director, Diane Doniol-Valcroze - Director, Arthur Flam - Director, Elizabeth Gazzara - Editor, Geir Jenssen - Composer (Music Score), Richard Rutkowski - Cinematographer, Gill Holland - Producer, Peter Levin - Sound/Sound Designer, Diane Doniol-Valcroze - Screenwriter, Arthur Flam - Screenwriter
Kill by Inches is a 1999independent film written and directed by Diane Doniol-Valcroze and Arthur Flam. The film premiered September 12, 1999 at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Discovery section.[1] It opened in New York City on October 26, 2001.
Conservatory Garden, Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA[2]
New York City, New York, USA
Voice over
Creepy poem over opening scene:
In the dead of winter,
at the Tailor's Parade,
a little boy was given
a pair of scissorblades,
for his father was a tailor.
"Go and steal our father's tape measure,"
said the sister to her brother,
and with the scissorblades,
the little boy cut up his father's tape measure...
But the old man saw
and took his boy by the neck
as the sister watched with delight,
her brother forced through the night
to keep his mouth wide open
and in agony swallow
every last piece of the tape measure,
inch by inch, down his throat,
till nothing was left.[3]
