After THE MEMORY OF A KILLER And DOSSIER K, Eric Vincke And Freddy Verstuyft Return In THE SECOND FACE (HET TWEEDE GELAAT)
Beligian director Erik Van Looy created something of an international sensation with his 2003 effort The Memory Of A Killer (also known as The Alzheimer Case in English, or De Zaak Alzheimer in the original language). Adapted from a hugely popular crime novel, the picture proved a huge hit both at home and abroad and inmany ways prefigured the coming wave of classy crime thrillers that were about to explode on the international scene from just a little bit farther north in the Nordic countries.
After the success of that 2003 film director Jan Verheyen took the reins for a second adaptation from the same series with Dossier K, an equally slick and effective thriller that also met with great success, and now Verheyen returns again with a third effort in Het Tweede Gelaat, which Google translates literally as The Second Face, though I'm sure there are some better translation options out there.
The once unconditional friendship between police officers Vincke and Verstuyft hits a very rough patch when they come up against a series of gruesome murders. Complicating matters even further, a survivor of the killer drives a wedge between them when Verstuyft falls for her charms. Meanwhile, the serial killer has a new victim in sight...
The first trailer for this one has just arrived and it's an impressive one that chooses to play out entirely without dialogue and just let the visuals do the talking. And when you've got visuals like this, why wouldn't you? Check it out below!
