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Rated: R; Genres: Crime, Mystery, Suspense; With: Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson; Distributor: Paramount Pictures
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DEAD AGAIN Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson (1991, Paramount, $92.95, R) In this engrossing romantic thriller, amnesiac Emma Thompson is tormented by nightmares of a murder committed before she was born. Then she meets dreamboat Kenneth Branagh (Henry V), a private detective who takes a stab at resolving her transcendental trauma. Soon the two feel as if they've known each other all their lives, and in fact they have: Under the spell of a hypnotist (Derek Jacobi), they discover that they're reincarnated lovers linked by a crime of passion. With its stylized black-and-white sequences and fast-paced melodramatic plot, this homage to film noir is both intense and purposely self-conscious-and on the small screen, where remote-happy viewers are already used to genre jumping, star-director Branagh's time-shifting technique is particularly effective. A- -Jill Rachlin


Posted Mar 13, 1992
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