Infamous (2007)

No, you’re not seeing double. Less than a year after Philip Seymour Hoffman’s gong-grabbing turn as writer Truman Capote, here’s another biopic of the queeny short-arse behind Breakfast At Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood. Meteor, volcano and digi-insect-based blockbusters apart, the last time this happened was in the late ’80s when Dangerous Liaisons and Valmont offered different takes on the same French novel within months of each other. On that occasion it was the latter, directed by Milos Forman, that came off worse and, as polished and intelligent as Douglas McGrath’s film is, Infamous looks destined to share its fate.

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