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Directed by Theo van Gogh
Holland, 117 minutes
A
radical Muslim took the life of outspoken Dutch director Theo van Gogh
in November of 2004, when he was working on the final edit of his last
film: May 6th. Ironically, May 6th is about another real
political murder, that of the fast-rising right-wing politician Pim
Fortuyn, who was running for Prime Minister. He was killed at the hands
of an animal and environmental rights activist on May 6, 2002.
Theo
van Gogh offers a conspiracy theory using the bare facts of Fortuyn’s
murder as the seeds of this mercurial thriller. While on a promotional
shoot with an actress, photojournalist Jim De Booy accidentally catches
an image of Fortuyn’s murderer on film, and begins to delve into the
crime. Jim teams up with Ayse, a young Arab woman who is a former
member of the animal rights group that claimed responsibility for the
assassination, and unearths a governmental-industrial conspiracy
against Fortuyn.
May 6th offers a fascinating
look at Dutch society, where from van Gogh’s perspective, a façade of
liberal social policy and laissez faire attitudes mask deeper, darker
undercurrents.
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