Rating: R
Genre:
Culture & Society
Theatrical Release: 01/09/2004(USA
Release Date: 06/01/2004
SubTitles: French
Dubbed: English
Sound: DDS
Run Time: 89 Minutes
Flags: Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
Nonfiction filmmaker
Nick Broomfield and his frequent collaborator
Joan Churchill return to the subject of an earlier film,
Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer, for
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer. Twelve years after the first film was made,
Wuornos was still in contact with
Broomfield from her cell on death row, and he was called as a witness in her final death penalty appeal before the state. Clips of the earlier film were used by defense lawyers to help make the case that
Wuornos' lawyer during sentencing, Steven Glaser, was incompetent. Footage used in court shows Glaser smoking pot on his way to the prison to confer with his client.
Broomfield uses the opportunity to interview
Wuornos several more times and to examine the horrific details of her childhood, interviewing her acquaintances and surviving members of her family. While making the new film,
Broomfield learns that
Wuornos, increasingly unstable and paranoid, is unwilling to continue to fight for her life. Desperate to escape death row, she has abandoned her convincing claim that she committed murder in self-defense, and she now wants to be executed as soon as possible. In Jeb Bush's Florida, it's clear, this isn't difficult to accomplish.
Broomfield talks to the mentally deteriorated
Wuornos one last time before her execution.
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer had its New York premiere at the
2003 Tribeca Film Festival.
~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide
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