This film is based on real events that embody a set of crimes committed by Paul Bernardo and his wife, Carla Homolka. The duo together carried out a series of heinous crimes through kidnapping, sexual assault and killing three young girls.
No audience, Canadian or otherwise, will learn anything here outside of the macabre facts. Worse, they won't feel anything either, not even -- and this is inexcusable -- for the victims themselves.
Little ambiguity or tension at the core of this hollow karaoke version of the Bernardo-Homolka murders . . . Karla seldom probes its title character's own complicity.
The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
December 08, 2006
Movies about real life serial killers are released frequently. It's when they're missing grief that they become an insult to the memory of the dead.
sbs.is
August 13, 2006
dispicable
Jam! Movies
January 20, 2006
In truth, nothing in the movie Karla will add much to the debate, other than serving as yet another reminder. But I do not believe it will do any harm, either.
Things in the movie, like the slasher movie music cues, hint that Karla has exploitation in its veins. The reasons for making it -- and seeing it -- remain more than slightly suspect.
