Stormy Monday (1989)
Country: GB
Technical: col 93m
Director: Mike Figgis
Cast: Sean Bean, Melanie Griffith, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting
Synopsis:
An Irishman in Newcastle gets a job as cleaner for a nightclub owner and finds himself escorting a visiting Polish jazz band while flirting with an American waitress who has herself been employed by a Texan entrepreneur to 'smooth the way' for his development scam, the last sticking point of which is a certain nightclub owner's reluctance to sell...
Review:
Famous jazz fan Figgis's film is itself almost as much a piece of free-form improvisation as the music of its storyline's own exponents. It seems to revisit Get Carter and The Long Good Friday, as well as having vaguely noirish elements (fall guy, rain, bars), but isn't as chilling as either, and there isn't a great deal of acting to be done by the leads, with James Cosmo knocking them all into a cocked hat as a heavy. Some nice cinematography and atmospheric touches remain.
Country: GB
Technical: col 93m
Director: Mike Figgis
Cast: Sean Bean, Melanie Griffith, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting
Synopsis:
An Irishman in Newcastle gets a job as cleaner for a nightclub owner and finds himself escorting a visiting Polish jazz band while flirting with an American waitress who has herself been employed by a Texan entrepreneur to 'smooth the way' for his development scam, the last sticking point of which is a certain nightclub owner's reluctance to sell...
Review:
Famous jazz fan Figgis's film is itself almost as much a piece of free-form improvisation as the music of its storyline's own exponents. It seems to revisit Get Carter and The Long Good Friday, as well as having vaguely noirish elements (fall guy, rain, bars), but isn't as chilling as either, and there isn't a great deal of acting to be done by the leads, with James Cosmo knocking them all into a cocked hat as a heavy. Some nice cinematography and atmospheric touches remain.
Country: GB
Technical: col 93m
Director: Mike Figgis
Cast: Sean Bean, Melanie Griffith, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting
Synopsis:
An Irishman in Newcastle gets a job as cleaner for a nightclub owner and finds himself escorting a visiting Polish jazz band while flirting with an American waitress who has herself been employed by a Texan entrepreneur to 'smooth the way' for his development scam, the last sticking point of which is a certain nightclub owner's reluctance to sell...
Review:
Famous jazz fan Figgis's film is itself almost as much a piece of free-form improvisation as the music of its storyline's own exponents. It seems to revisit Get Carter and The Long Good Friday, as well as having vaguely noirish elements (fall guy, rain, bars), but isn't as chilling as either, and there isn't a great deal of acting to be done by the leads, with James Cosmo knocking them all into a cocked hat as a heavy. Some nice cinematography and atmospheric touches remain.