Michael Winterbottom's new film The Face of an Angel, loosely based on Barbie Latza Nadeau's book on the Amanda Knox case, Angel Face, is drawing fire from Candace Dempsey, whose competing book Murder in Italy is far more sympathetic to Knox. Reacting to the movie's trailer, unveiled this week at Berlin's European Film Market, Dempsey calls the film "an invasion of Amanda's life."
"I'm shocked that BBC Films would help fund a movie so prejudicial," Dempsey tells THR."“So much for fairness and neutrality. They are running a salacious trailer, complete with sex on the train -- which, if it happened, was before the murder.
"Winterbottom wants to have it both ways," says Dempsey. "The film's not about Amanda, but it is about Amanda. It's not about guilt or innocence, but it makes Amanda look at guilty as possible."
In the trailer, one character says, "She had sex with some random guy she met on a train," and Bruhl's character replies, "None of that makes her a killer."