![]() ![]() That ignites a torrid affair between the two - a relationship Lou must hide from Amy (Kate Hudson), his regular girlfriend. But when the woman puts up a fight, Lou strikes her, and the physical violence turns her on. ![]() As the movie opens, he’s ordered to chase Joyce (Jessica Alba), a prostitute, out of town. Noir antiheroes don’t come too much darker than West Texas deputy sheriff Lou Ford (Casey Affleck) - he’s a sexual sadist and a sociopath, yet he respectfully addresses women as ma’am. ![]() After tackling science fiction, a musical biopic, and a procedural docudrama, he puts his stamp on neo-noir with an adaptation of Jim Thompson’s novel The Killer Inside Me. Throughout his career, Michael Winterbottom has jumped from genre to genre, and his ability to pull off such vastly different movies is a rare talent. ![]()
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