by
Julien Faddoul
The
Accountant *
As a math
savant works the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on
his activities and the body count starts to rise.
An
intriguing premise sustains this action/thriller for about half its runtime
until it succumbs to ridiculousness, with an endless array of red herrings.
Good cast.
d – Gavin O’Connor
w – Bill
Dubuque
ph – Seamus McGarvey
pd – Keith P. Cunningham
m – Mark Isham
ed – Richard
Pearson
cos – Nancy
Steiner
p – Lynette Howell Taylor, Mark Williams
Cast: Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, JK Simmons, Jon
Bernthal, Jeffrey Tambor, John Lithgow, Jean Smart
Hell or
High Water **
A divorced dad
and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their
family's farm in West Texas.
Tautly
written and directed neo-western about modern economic hardships. Fairly modest,
but done with style and grit.
d – David
Mackenzie
w – Taylor Sheridan
ph – Giles Nuttgens
pd – Tom Duffield
m – Nick Cave,
Warren Ellis
ed – Jake
Roberts
cos – Malgosia
Turzanska
p – Peter Berg, Carla Hacken, Sidney Kimmel,
Julie Yorn
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, Ben Foster,
Gil Birmingham, Dale Dickey, Katy Mixon, Marin Ireland
Elle *
A successful
businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the
unknown man who raped her.
Fake and unconvincing
thriller/character-study/provocation on past trauma, sexual perversion and feminism
that is saved from total clumsiness by the indomitability of Huppert’s
performance. It plays more like a French bourgeois parody of its director’s
previous films.
d – Paul Verhoeven
w – David Birke (Based on the Novel by Philippe Djian)
ph – Stéphane Fontaine
pd – Laurent Ott
m – Anne Dudley
ed – Job ter
Burg
cos – Nathalie
Raoul
p – Saïd Ben
Saïd, Michel Merkt
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne
Consigny, Charles Berling, Virginie Efira, Christian Berkel
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