The Weight of Water (2000)

A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness.
Kathryn Bigelow, David Webb
Sean Penn, Catherine McCormack, Elizabeth Hurley, Sarah Polley, Josh Lucas, Ciarán Hinds, Richard Donat, Ulrich Thomsen, Anders W. Berthelsen, Joseph Rutten, John Walf, Katrin Cartlidge, Vinessa Shaw, Adam Curry, John Maclaren, Rita Kvist, Jan Tore Kristoffersen, Catherine Kellner, Karl Júlíusson, Peter Cobbold, R.D. Call, Richard Scobie
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