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Can a writer’s research go too far? “Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale Of A Writer Who Decided To Write About A Serial Killer” offers an unconventional take on the creative process. Keane’s life is in turmoil thanks to a looming divorce and writing a new book isn’t easy. Everything changes after the unlucky author befriends a former serial killer.

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“Psycho Therapy” presents a distinct storytelling experience for filmmaker Tolga Karaçelik.

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Brainstorm Media has acquired North American rights to Tolga Karaçelik’s “Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer.” The dark comedy, which stars Steve Buscemi, premiered at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival where it won an Audience Award. It will be released in cinemas and on VOD in April.

The movie is about a struggling writer. In the midst of a divorce, he befriends a retired serial killer, who becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing counselor for his next book by night. The film is Karaçelik’s English-language directorial and screenwriting debut. In addition to Buscemi, it co-stars John Magaro (“Past Lives”) and Britt Lower (“Severance”).

“Tolga Karacelik has crafted a film full of twists and turns (and an all-star cast) that will keep people on the edge of their seat throughout,” Michelle Shwarzstein, Brainstorm Media CEO, said in a statement.

With one of the longest titles a film is ever likely to have, The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer, is, in a single word, uproarious. This, of course, is counterintuitive, not only given the film's name and storyline, but from its overall appearance, which is, for the majority of its runtime, quite bleak. The movie's writer and director, Turkish filmmaker Tolga Karaelik, creates a laugh-out-loud film paired with dark subject matter such as murder, divorce, and kidnapping. It stars Steve Buscemi, John Magaro, and Britt Lower as three very unlikely collaborators in what ends up being the funniest, and most violent, marriage counseling session you'll ever witness. The film's dazzling writing, directing, and editing, in conjunction with the outstanding performances and undeniable chemistry between each of its leads, makes The Shallow Tale one you'll want to watch again and again.

Britt Lower, John Magaro, and Steve Buscemi are standout performers in The Shallow Tale. Suzie, played by Britt Lower, brings the most humor and excitement to the film. The movie's focus on the crumbling marriage between Suzie and Keane overshadows Keane's writing journey.

Some may find the title of The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer misleading. It's not entirely inaccurate, but beneath the film's initial premise as described in the title is a different movie, one less about the process of writing and more about a marriage falling apart and how it might be saved over one out of control night.

The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write about a Serial Killer (2024)

Director Tolga KaraelikRelease Date June 8, 2024Writers Tolga KaraelikCast Nik Sadhnani, Sydney Cole Alexander, Olli Haaskivi, Britt Lower, Jacob Ming-Trent, John Magaro, Ward Horton, Steve BuscemiRuntime 102 MinutesGenres Drama,...

“Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer” marks the English-language debut of Turkish director Tolga Karaçelik. Its initial premise, about an unhappily married couple, morphs and flips on its head until it transforms into something resembling the movie’s title, though it’s only about “a writer writing about a serial killer” in the most nominal sense. That one element gives way to an even more amusing conceit, involving crossed-wires and mistaken identities, but its wires continue to cross, until the movie mutates beyond recognition, refusing to stick to any one idea for longer than a couple of scenes.

John Magaro plays Keane, a meek but self-absorbed novelist who refuses to admit (or even recognize) that his marriage is on the rocks. His wife Suzie (Britt Lower) initially comes off as heartless and cold in her admonishment of him and in her demands for a divorce.

Turkish director Tolga Karaçelik, who made a splash in the U.S. with absurdist comedy “Butterflies,” is getting ready to premiere his first English-language film, “The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer,” in which the offbeat serial killer in question is played by Steve Buscemi.

The New York-set film, which takes Karaçelik’s comic streak in a new direction, will launch on Saturday from the Tribeca Film Festival. “The Shallow Tale” also features John Magaro (“Past Lives”) as Keane, a struggling writer who befriends the “retired” serial killer, who eventually becomes Keane’s unlikely marriage counselor as he goes through divorce proceedings with his straight-laced wife (Britt Lower), as well as the muse for his next book.

Karaçelik, who got a law degree in Turkey before moving to New York to study film, debuted as director in 2010 with the well-received “Toll Booth,” about...

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