BLUE STEEL

english below

Tijdens haar eerste werkdag schiet NYPD groentje Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) een gewapende overvaller neer met haar dienstwapen. Op de plaats delict wordt echter geen wapen gevonden en Megan wordt tijdelijk geschorst. Wanneer er bij een moord een kogel wordt gevonden met haar naam erop, wordt Megan tijdelijk aangesteld als moordzakendetective. De misdaad blijkt de eerste van een reeks moorden, die onverklaarbaar gelinkt zijn aan Megan. Het enige wat duidelijk is: de seriemoordenaar is onstabiel én geobsedeerd door Megan.

“Jamie Lee Curtis gives her most complex performance to date as the reckless Megan, whose obsessive behaviour and over-reactions have more to do with turning the tables on violent men than balancing the scales of justice. Short on plausibility but preserving the psycho-sexual ambiguities throughout, Kathryn Bigelow's seductively stylish, wildy fetishistic thriller is proof that a woman can enter a traditionally male world and, like Megan, beat men at their own game.”
TimeOut

De film wordt vertoond op 35mm, met dank aan CINEMATEK.

ENG
The film is in English with Dutch subtitles

During her first day on the job, NYPD rookie Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) shoots an armed robber with her service revolver. However, afterwards no weapon is found on the crime scene and Megan is temporarily suspended. When a bullet is found with her name carved into it on a different murder scene, Megan is reinstated as a homicide detective. The crime turns out to be the first in a series of murders inexplicably linked to Megan. The only thing that becomes clear: the serial killer is unstable and obsessed with Megan.

“Jamie Lee Curtis gives her most complex performance to date as the reckless Megan, whose obsessive behaviour and over-reactions have more to do with turning the tables on violent men than balancing the scales of justice. Short on plausibility but preserving the psycho-sexual ambiguities throughout, Kathryn Bigelow's seductively stylish, wildy fetishistic thriller is proof that a woman can enter a traditionally male world and, like Megan, beat men at their own game.”
TimeOut

The film will be screened on 35mm, courtesy of CINEMATEK.