The Curse of Edgar

I note this movie, despite starring Brian Cox, is not available for streaming in the USA in 2023, and a DVD needs to be ordered from France (this is how I got it). Is it restricted from some major markets for some political reasons? This film's script itself plays out as if under the over-sight or governance of some outside parties with legal power who told Dugain what he could say in this film about Hoover. That is, despite its hints at Hoover's general nefariousness and odd contradictions, the movie lacks a real, vivid argument about Hoover's antagonistic relationship to the Kennedys and so no real, vivid drama or tragedy comes into focus. We're left with a portrait of Hoover as a crank and impediment, but not as an major player in several calamities--though it implies that he was. I still prefer Cox's believable characterization of Hoover to the squinting mask that DiCaprio affects in his stagey attempt at embodying Hoover in the even more tepid and inconclusive Clint Eastwood-directed bio-pic "Edgar." Stay til the end of Dugain's alternative, because the acting in this is quite good, but you may, like me, puzzle over the punches pulled--the whole thing lacks the focus, drama, and power that its outline promises. If somebody didn't tell them what they could-and-couldn't say, it feels as if the script were edited by a redactor's pen.