Sicario (2015)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 121m
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Victor Garber
Synopsis:
A federal Drug Enforcement officer is drawn into a CIA sting operation against Mexican drug cartels.
Review:
The director returns to the emotional and political world of Incendies, with a female lead put through emotional trauma and a multi-perspective approach to a narrative in which there are only victims. It is a brutally effective thrill ride, contriving to be more than the Michael Mann procedural it superficially resembles: its grisly opening discovery and atmosphere of sustained menace recall equally the world of those two Tommy Lee Jones dread-filled frontier pictures, The Three Burial of Melquiades Estrada and No Country for Old Men. Significantly, it also opens up the prospect of US interference in Mexican domestic law enforcement, in which regard life may well imitate art before too long.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 121m
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Victor Garber
Synopsis:
A federal Drug Enforcement officer is drawn into a CIA sting operation against Mexican drug cartels.
Review:
The director returns to the emotional and political world of Incendies, with a female lead put through emotional trauma and a multi-perspective approach to a narrative in which there are only victims. It is a brutally effective thrill ride, contriving to be more than the Michael Mann procedural it superficially resembles: its grisly opening discovery and atmosphere of sustained menace recall equally the world of those two Tommy Lee Jones dread-filled frontier pictures, The Three Burial of Melquiades Estrada and No Country for Old Men. Significantly, it also opens up the prospect of US interference in Mexican domestic law enforcement, in which regard life may well imitate art before too long.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 121m
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Victor Garber
Synopsis:
A federal Drug Enforcement officer is drawn into a CIA sting operation against Mexican drug cartels.
Review:
The director returns to the emotional and political world of Incendies, with a female lead put through emotional trauma and a multi-perspective approach to a narrative in which there are only victims. It is a brutally effective thrill ride, contriving to be more than the Michael Mann procedural it superficially resembles: its grisly opening discovery and atmosphere of sustained menace recall equally the world of those two Tommy Lee Jones dread-filled frontier pictures, The Three Burial of Melquiades Estrada and No Country for Old Men. Significantly, it also opens up the prospect of US interference in Mexican domestic law enforcement, in which regard life may well imitate art before too long.