Review of Infamous (2006) by Timothy L — 12 Feb 2009

This film is an interesting study in Capote. Clearly inferior to the film Capote, Infamous lacks a subtle, subdued, sentimental effect that dictated much of Capote's life during the writing of In Cold Blood.

There is nothing somber about this film, which abandons fact in order to force a not-so-explicit love affair between Capote and murderer Perry Smith. This film begins with fact and honesty, and ends with fact, but it lacks much truth in the middle.

Much of the relationship between Perry and Capote as depicted in this film is fictionalized. For a more realistic and honest depiction of the life of Truman Capote, see the film Capote.