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The entire private and professional life of James Ellroy revolves around a single obsession: the murder of his mother which he identified with that of a young woman nicknamed The Black Dahlia, whose body was found naked and mutilated in an empty lot ten years earlier. Through the testimonies of policemen, journalists, criminologists, James Ellroy himself, and his wife, this is the portrait of America in the 1950s-60s, seen from its darkest side. The rites of passage of a man and a writer who would go through hell before finding redemption, who had the makings of a serial killer but who became one of the greatest crime fiction writers of his time.

France - 2005 - 53 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour and B&W

Director Clara Kuperberg, Robert Kuperberg Camera Neil Antin Sound Luis Ramirez Editing Clara Kuperberg

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