Needling interviewees and stirring up trouble, documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield (Biggie And Tupac, Kurt & Courtney) has always made the process of finding the story into the story itself. This, however, is something else again...
Broomfield originally filmed the story of serial killer Aileen Wuornos back in 1992 as The Selling Of A Serial Killer. He hadn't planned to make a sequel, but was dragged back into her life more than a decade later when he was subpoenaed to testify at her final appeal.
Through a new batch of interviews, he follows Wuornos' final months en route to the gas chamber. As the macabre theatrics of a state execution unfold, Broomfield's film offers a raw portrait of a woman driven insane by incarceration and desperate to die. Eerily compelling.
DVD Extras:
Both this new film and the original doc are on the disc, along with interviews where Broomfield expands on his relationship with Wuornos. The last thing she would have wanted, he says, was a movie about her life. Ironic, really, since on 29 February (Wuornos' birthday), Charlize Theron picked up an Oscar for playing her in the biopic Monster...
