Karla
Based on real events, Paul Bernardo and his wife, Karla Homolka, kidnap, sexually abuse, and murder three young girls.
5 April 1967
20 August 1974, Massachusetts, USA
20 September 1949, Harlem, New York, USA
24 August 1949, New York City, New York, USA
15 August 1950, Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, USA
9 October 1979, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
29 September 1948, Chicago, Illinois, USA
9 August 1959, Montréal, Québec, Canada
1943
11 January 1944, Bayside, New York, USA
17 April 1967, Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
2 January 1979, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
7 March 1980, Watchung, New Jersey, USA
6 December 1938, Brussels, Belgium
20 May 1980, Detroit, Michigan, USA
January 21, 2006
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.
January 20, 2006
You can call it guilty of exploitation, tastelessness or insensitivity if you like, but its greatest failing is a certain deadly pointlessness.
April 29, 2006
Victims outshine their captors
January 20, 2006
What proves most disturbing is the way in which the film portrays Homolka as a victim.
January 24, 2006
Because we only see one side of the events, "Karla" rings unconvincing and sensationalistic.
March 16, 2007
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.
January 20, 2006
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.
January 22, 2006
...hopelessly inept and thoroughly awful...
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.
August 13, 2006
dispicable
January 20, 2006
Controversial and innately creepy, it left me feeling... well, dirty.
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.
