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ANNA

June 25, 2019 By Leave a Comment

ANNA

There is in Luc Besson’s ANNA fully one-third of a very good movie.  That third is a finely drawn satire, cartoonishly violent in its sublimation of female rage as it addresses female exploitation in the modern world using the milieus of espionage and modeling as the metaphor. The other two-thirds is a plodding retread of… Read More »

Tagged With: assassin, espionage, flashback, Moscow, Paris, Skill Set

IVANSXTC

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Based on the Tolstoy story THE DEATH OF IVAN ILLYICH, IVANSXTC takes the Russian bureaucrat from the 19th century and transmutes him into a high-powered talent agent in contemporary Hollywood.  Not an intuitive leap, but filmmaker Bernard Rose has taken the essence of the original story, and made it work in the most unlikely of… Read More »

Tagged With: flashback

GANGSTER NO. 1

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

GANGSTER NO. 1

GANGSTER NO 1 is a slick and stylish tale of love and revenge set in the 60s London’s gangland scene. In the milieu that brought forth the real-life Kray brothers, known for their ultra-violence, screenwriter Johnny Ferguson brings us Freddy Mayes and his prime lackey, the eponymous gangster Number 1 who is never otherwise named. The film… Read More »

Tagged With: flashback

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