'Knives and Skin' review: A girl, gone, and a Chicago filmmaker's eerie pursuit
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Dec 12, 2019
2 minutes
A film of slow dissolves and lots of ironic pinks, tinged with darker, crimson hues, Chicago filmmaker Jennifer Reeder's dreamlike reverie of blood-soaked adolescence "Knives and Skin" can be described, if you don't mind misleading people, as if it were a straightforward missing-person drama set in the mythical Midwestern town called Big River.
Late one night, 15-year-old Carolyn
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