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Article: Identity politics at face value: an interview with Scott McGehee and David Siegel. (directors of 'Suture') (Interview)
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- Cineaste
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- June 22, 1993
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Once in a while, a small film comes along that, by counterbalancing a lack of mainstream cachet with a burst of creativity, leaves the audience stunned and the cinema spinning. This happened at the 1993 Toronto Festival of Festivals with Suture, an independent feature directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel two thirty-year-old filmmakers from L.A.
At first glance, Suture looks like a conventional crime thriller about murder and framed identity: the rich, ruthless Vincent Towers attempts to switch identities with his brother Clay to escape his impending patricide trial. By remote control, Vincent blows up his own Rolls Royce with Clay sitting in the driver's seat. ...