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To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Here is a real life murder mystery of the Haysom's in Virginia back in the 80's. Elizabeth was a troubled college student with a drug problem.She met a German student named Jens Soring and her parents ended up hacked to death. They escaped to England but were brought back to the U.S. for trial. She pled guilty and through Jens under the bus. The courtroom footage is riveting, as the two tell very different stories of what happened that night. We all see things through our own personal viewpoints. As a true crime reader for over 30 years(The Stranger Beside Me), I was absorbed by this documentary. The only drawback is the missing Elizabeth, as she refused to be interviewed, but Jens loves to talk, and he makes for a great subject.

This film is "stranger than fiction" - a real true crime story which gets under your skin. From the really first beginning you are shackled by the gruesome real crime szene footage, the touching romantic love letters with voice work from Daniel Brühl reading Jens Söring's letters and Imogen Poots reading Elizabeth Haysom's letters and the thrilling court room footage. This is one of the best documentaries I have seen and left me blown away about the injustice of the US justice system.

Gripping and suspenseful doc turned thriller that stays with you for a long, long time. The film challenges everything you know about love and the dark side of its influence. Prepare to get the chills.

A love story, a murder, a man in prison for 32 years for a crime he never committed.In the vein of Making a Murderer, Killing For Love takes us through the heartbreaking story of a man fighting desperately against the criminal justice system. Jens Soering meets Elizabeth Haysom in his first year of college in the United States. He is from Germany, an outsider, very smart. She is also terribly smart, manipulative, charming. Jens is enchanted with her right away and their love affair begins. They write each other love letters when they are apart--which are narrated perfectly by Imogen Poots and Daniel Bruhl--long, poetic confessions of love and fantasy and twisted desire. Elizabeth writes again and again of her hatred toward her parents; their drinking; her desire to have them dead. When her parents are brutally murdered, Elizabeth and Jens flee to Europe, but are eventually captured and there's talk of the death penalty. Jens, wrapped up in his obsession and desperate to save his girlfriend, confesses to the crime. The story twists and turns, each person adding more and sometimes contradictory but of the tale--from folks who were investigating the crime when it happened to those still rallying and fighting on behalf of Jens. I found myself both captivated by the twists and turns of the narrative, and heartbroken for Jens. This film is engrossing, crushing, and a story well-told.