Director: Erik van Looy
Original Title: De zaak Alzheimer
Language: Rutch, FrenchMain Cast: Koen De Bouw, Werner De Smedt, Jan Decleir
When a key civil servant is murdered, the Antwerp police force puts its top crime investigators on the case: Vincke (Koen De Bouw) and Verstuyft (Werner De Smedt). The trail leads to hitman Angelo Ledda (Jan Decleir). Showing symptoms of Alzheimer’s, Ledda finds it increasingly difficult to carry out assignments. When he realizes that he is being used in a political power game, he decides to bite the hand that feeds. Vincke and Verstuyft have a hard time trying to disentangle the web of intrigues to prevent further killings. Subsequently, the three men find themselves working together to eliminate Antwerp’s ‘underground network’.
The Memory of a Killer Dir. Erik van Looy
- Belgium, Netherlands
- 123 mins
- 2003
- Crime Thriller
- Colour
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The Bottom Line:
Jan Decleir plays aging hit-man Ledda who battles the early symptoms of Alzheimers while carrying out his last job and trying to figure out right from wrong. The ingredients for classic original crime drama are all present: add Decleir’s career-defining masterclass and you have a very special movie indeed.