Screen International reviews Elisabeth Scharang's Jack after its world premiere on the Locarno Piazza Grande.
“Once a murderer, always a murderer?” That’s the philosophical question underpinning Jack, an
accomplished, quietly compelling portrait of a convicted killer and whether he can escape the
long shadows of his past or the expectations of a society both fascinated and repelled by his
actions. Writer/director Elisabeth Scharang takes a rigorously unsensational approach to true
events. She invites the audience to make its own judgement on the true nature of killer Jack
Unterweger. Was his eager embrace of rehabilitation genuine or merely a clever act?
Allan Hunter Screen International
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