The Pale Blue Eye

United States Military Academy, West Point Military, 1830. One winter morning, the dead body of a young cadet is found. Tragedy turns to carnage when it is discovered in the morgue that the heart has been removed with perfect precision. The heads of the United States Military Academy, fear the irreparable damage that this murder can do to the reputation of the military center, so they hire the services of a local inspector, Augustus Landor (Christian Bale), to try to solve the murder. Frustrated by the silence of the cadets, Landor enlists the help of one of them to investigate the case. This caet is an eccentric cadet who doesn't like the military discipline and feels a certain love for poetry, a young man called Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling).'The Pale Blue Eye' is based on the homonymous novel by Louis Bayard.

Scott Cooper ('Crazy Heart') directs and writes this film that features an acclaimed cast that includes, in addition to Bale and Melling, Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Toby Jones, Harry Lawtey, Simon McBurney, Hadley Robinson, Timothy Spall and Robert Duvall.

'The Pale Blue Eye' opens in theaters on December 23 and less than a month later, on January 6, it will be available via streaming on Netflix.