Article: SIN CITY

SIN CITY

Directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez

Dimension

Opens April 1

DARK NIGHT RETURNS

Black and white and red all over: Frank Miller's violent pulp saga, with no shades of gray

The sun never shines in Sin City-but then Sin City doesn't really need light. Although populated by a gaggle of Hollywood meat puppets, this slick and brutal Robert Rodriguez adaptation of Frank Miller's famously "grim and gritty" graphic novels is strictly post-photographic.* Reality is virtual. Shot on DV in black-is-black and white-on-white with strategic swatches of color-most often blood-red-Sin City has its digitally enhanced performers cavorting through hyper-noir CGI "sets." The atmosphere is the ...

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