Title: The
Constant |
Release Date: 2005 |
Nationality and Language: UK/Germany/Canada, English/German |
Running time: 129 min |
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Distributor and Production Company Focus/Scion |
Director; Writer: Fernando Meirelles, wr. Jeffrey Caine, based on novel by John Le Carre |
Producer: |
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Herbert Kounde, Bill Nighy, Peter Postlethwaithe |
Technical: 1.85: 1 |
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This release is billed as a big early fall
thriller, but really it is rather an art film, shot flat in what
looks like HD video (Arri) with
breathtaking scenery from Africa and London, to be sure (especially
the deserts), but a lot of intimate husband-and-wife scenes and
character confrontations and a mystery that rather reminds one of an
Alfred Hitchcock film. The basic setup is that the wife (Rachel
Weisz) of a British diplomat Justin
Quayle (Ralph Fiennes) goes to The scenes of poverty in the film, along the railroad tracks, are even more graphic than those in “Hotel Rwanda.” The Reader (2008, The Weinstein Company, dir. Stephen Daldry, novel by Bernhard Schlink, 122 min, R (almost NC-17), Germany/UK). A teenager has an affair with a woman who had served as an SS guard, and then grows up to become a lawyer. But as a law student, he encounters her at the 1966 war crimes trial, when her "secret" (illiteracy) could save her. She is too ashamed to admit it, so he doesn't "tell." Ralph Fiennes is the grown up Mike Berg, and Kate Winslet is Hanna. Davis Kross transforms from 15 to 23, and has to grow chest hair before he has his own family for real. For details of the moral issues, see Blogger review.
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