Film · 1990 · Legal drama
Reversal of Fortune
Directed by Barbet Schroeder
1990
★ 2.8 editorial score
Jeremy Irons plays Claus von Bulow as completely unreadable and was rewarded for it: the film is narrated by his wife from the coma she never woke from, and takes no position.
“Reversal of Fortune – based on the book of the same name by Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor and attorney who won Claus a 1984 appeal that led to a retrial and acquittal in 1985 – goes beyond the question of von Bülow's innocence or guilt. What makes it such a mesmerizing, wickedly witty entertainment is the revealing portrait it paints of an era in which everyone is presumed guilty where greed is concerned.”
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