Du Bois, who makes a cameo as a detective in the movie, gave the film company and director credit for making an adaption of the true story.

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Now in his 50s, the evergreen Hong Kong star of song and film stayed popular last year with the movie Blind Detective.

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In form, the movie is a detective story, but we watch with increasing apprehensiveness as it dawns on us that Pharaon might be a kind of sluggish Oedipus, a sleuth who uncovers the traces of a crime that he has committed himself.

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The Welles in question, played by Nicolas Cage, is a private detective who is asked to watch a snuff movie and to find out just how snuffy it is whether a young woman was actually killed onscreen.

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The movie ends with Doug and his sister in full detective mode, even though they stop, mid-stakeout, to have absurd conversations.

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Lecter is in Florence, where he is suspected by a local detective (Giancarlo Giannini, the best and most rumpled thing in the movie).

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