Deborah Ross

Fun with Herzog

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call — New Orleans<br /> 18, Nationwide

issue 22 May 2010

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call — New Orleans
18, Nationwide

My dears, whatever else you are doing this week you must set aside time to see this film, which is lunatic but also extraordinary and riveting. It’s directed by Werner Herzog and stars Nicolas Cage and if it is of a known genre, it is not a genre known to me.

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