Cert 15
101 mins
BBFC advice: Contains strong language, sex, drug use, bloody images
Even Michael Winterbottom admits that so much has been written and broadcast about Meredith Kercher's murder that finding a new angle wasn't easy.
I wondered, therefore, why he bothered.
The Face Of An Angel is a fictional story which is based on the Kercher case.
But it is on the periphery of the story, focusing on the media rather than the details of the murder of a young student in her Italian flat.
The problem for Mrs W and me was that we know the story so well we didn't need to be fed more speculation about it.
Winterbottom's film focuses on a documentary-maker (Daniel Bruhl) who is interested in the sideshow of a murder case.
He teams up with a TV journalist (Kate Beckinsale) but is a reluctant member of the tabloid pack.
Thus, he strives to glean his information from a feisty young student (Cara Delavigne).
But as he delves further into the murky world surrounding the killing, he has to fight his own demons which have kept him away from his young daughter and threaten the making of his movie.
Bruhl is a top actor and his performance means that The Face Of An Angel isn't a complete waste of time but, in my opinion, it is a film which leaves precisely the same questions which still hang over Meredith Kercher's awful slaying.
And for that reason, it didn't need to be made.
Director Michael Winterbottom: "I thought this story would be a way of exploring the media and why the media is so obsessed with crime in both fictional forms and real forms but we also wanted it to be about love."
Reasons to watch: It is a new angle on a well-known story
Reasons to avoid: It wanders too far off track
Laughs: none
Jumps: none
Vomit: yes
Nudity: yes
Overall rating: 4.5/10