âThe Killing of Two Loversâ Review: What Lies Beneath
Under the veneer of an unusual marriage is an uncontrollable undercurrent to which everyone is susceptible.
From left, Clayne Crawford, Sepideh Moafi and Chris Coy in âThe Killing of Two Lovers.âCredit.Neon
By Nicolas Rapold
The Killing of Two Lovers
NYT Critic s Pick
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Robert Machoianâs âThe Killing of Two Loversâ opens like a crime thriller: A frantic man looms over his sleeping wife and her lover with a gun. Spooked by a noise, he runs off, and the camera follows him down an empty road in the Utah town where he lives with his ailing father. But a ticking time bomb of violence looms over this drama of a marriage, marked by his abjection and told in unpredictable long takes.