The notorious case of Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb-two young, gay University of Chicago students whose 1924 thrill-killing of fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks captured headlines as the “crime of the century”-is daringly reimagined in Tom Kalin’s subversive, smart, cooly stylized, and emotionally jarring New Queer Cinema touchstone.
The notorious case of Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb-two young, gay University of Chicago students whose 1924 thrill-killing of fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks captured headlines as the “crime of the century”-is daringly reimagined in Tom Kalin’s subversive, smart, cooly stylized, and emotionally jarring New Queer Cinema touchstone.
