The Two Faces of January (2014)
Country: GB/FR/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 96m
Director: Hossein Amini
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst
Synopsis:
In the early 1960s, an American couple on holiday in Greece is taken advantage of by an expat fellow countryman acting as a guide. He, in turn, soon finds that their need of his services goes beyond what any of them expected.
Review:
Based on a Patricia Highsmith novel, this has more than a whiff of Mr Ripley about it, in its uncommonly gifted polyglot anti-hero. It is also every bit as gorgeous to the eye as Minghella's movie, with Marcel Zyskind conjuring golden, time-capsule images of Athens and Knossos as worthy of Hitchcock as Alberto Iglesias's Herrmann-inflected score. Once again the scenario keeps you guessing right up to the end, and Mortensen is pre-eminent in another portrait of quixotic misanthropy. Iranian director Amini impresses in his first directorial project after two decades of prestigious screen-writing work.
Country: GB/FR/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 96m
Director: Hossein Amini
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst
Synopsis:
In the early 1960s, an American couple on holiday in Greece is taken advantage of by an expat fellow countryman acting as a guide. He, in turn, soon finds that their need of his services goes beyond what any of them expected.
Review:
Based on a Patricia Highsmith novel, this has more than a whiff of Mr Ripley about it, in its uncommonly gifted polyglot anti-hero. It is also every bit as gorgeous to the eye as Minghella's movie, with Marcel Zyskind conjuring golden, time-capsule images of Athens and Knossos as worthy of Hitchcock as Alberto Iglesias's Herrmann-inflected score. Once again the scenario keeps you guessing right up to the end, and Mortensen is pre-eminent in another portrait of quixotic misanthropy. Iranian director Amini impresses in his first directorial project after two decades of prestigious screen-writing work.
Country: GB/FR/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 96m
Director: Hossein Amini
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst
Synopsis:
In the early 1960s, an American couple on holiday in Greece is taken advantage of by an expat fellow countryman acting as a guide. He, in turn, soon finds that their need of his services goes beyond what any of them expected.
Review:
Based on a Patricia Highsmith novel, this has more than a whiff of Mr Ripley about it, in its uncommonly gifted polyglot anti-hero. It is also every bit as gorgeous to the eye as Minghella's movie, with Marcel Zyskind conjuring golden, time-capsule images of Athens and Knossos as worthy of Hitchcock as Alberto Iglesias's Herrmann-inflected score. Once again the scenario keeps you guessing right up to the end, and Mortensen is pre-eminent in another portrait of quixotic misanthropy. Iranian director Amini impresses in his first directorial project after two decades of prestigious screen-writing work.