DOC NYC Film Review: BLUE CODE OF SILENCE

74 minutes, Documentary, English, USA and Norway Director: Magnus Skatvold
Co-director: Greg Mallozzi
Producer: Håvard Wettland Gossé & Alexander Fraioli
Editors: Svein Olav Sandem, Kurt Engfehr & Magnus Skatvold
Composer: Kristoffer Lo
Executive Producer: Beth Earl
Associate Producers: Ronny Merdinger
Production Company: Spaett Film
Co-producer: Rustic Canyon Pictures

Filmmakers Magnus Skatvold and Greg Mallozzi exquisitely and tellingly profile former NYC police officer Bob Leuci, who in the 1960s was a member of the NYPD’s Special Investigative Unit AKA SUI, a major undercover narcotics operation. “His undercover work leads to the indictment of over 50 of his friends and colleagues — the same people he swore to never ‘rat’,” according to press notes for the film.

“You two guys can go fuck yourselves,” Leuci sneers at Skatvold and Mallozzi in his home early in the opening of the film as if he’s not going to talk, not going to squeal, after he agreed to meet with them. Nevertheless, he talks and talks and narrates at points in the film — as well as virtually from archival takes — just as he…