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- Robert Harris
While attempts at "stylish" thrillers seem to be a dime a dozen these days, when an accomplished filmmaker returns to a genre in which he has performed beautifully in the past, the film is worth a viewing.
I had missed The Interpreter theatrically, and was thrilled to have caught it on DVD.
Director Sydney Pollack, who has given us films such as The Firm, Havana, Absence of Malice and Three Days of the Condor serves up an accomplished political thriller with superb performances from Nicoloe Kidman and Sean Penn, and enough twists and turns to keep the audience more than happy.
Make sure that you check out the alternate ending, which I might have preferred, although in the real world it may not have occurred. But this is film.
An area for futher discussion is a comparison of the editing syles of William Steinkamp and Anne Coates, who cut In the Line of Fire, a similarly paced film.
This superbly crafted modern thriller comes highly recommended. As an aside, I did not view this on a large screen, and cannot make technical notes. One individual, who projected it to 185"! had some misgivings, but it must be said that the format was not intended for that sort of enlargement.
RAH
I had missed The Interpreter theatrically, and was thrilled to have caught it on DVD.
Director Sydney Pollack, who has given us films such as The Firm, Havana, Absence of Malice and Three Days of the Condor serves up an accomplished political thriller with superb performances from Nicoloe Kidman and Sean Penn, and enough twists and turns to keep the audience more than happy.
Make sure that you check out the alternate ending, which I might have preferred, although in the real world it may not have occurred. But this is film.
An area for futher discussion is a comparison of the editing syles of William Steinkamp and Anne Coates, who cut In the Line of Fire, a similarly paced film.
This superbly crafted modern thriller comes highly recommended. As an aside, I did not view this on a large screen, and cannot make technical notes. One individual, who projected it to 185"! had some misgivings, but it must be said that the format was not intended for that sort of enlargement.
RAH
