Cutter’s Way

Amis Modernes pick – guest programmer Steven Tomlinson

“Jeff Bridges plays Richard Bone, an aimless Santa Barbara sailing-boat salesman and part-time gigolo who fleetingly witnesses a man disposing of a murdered teenage girl. After a police investigation leads nowhere, Bone’s brilliant but self-destructive Vietnam veteran friend Alex Cutter (John Heard) becomes consumed with the belief that a wealthy corporate tycoon is responsible. Together these fundamentally broken characters push themselves into a reckless blackmail scheme, which may be driven more by personal grievance and self-delusion than genuine conviction. More than four decades after its release, CUTTER’S WAY remains strikingly relevant for its portrait of distrust in powerful elites, institutional impunity, and the uneasy suspicion that wealth and influence will always place justice beyond reach.”