Deadfall (15) 94 mins ***
Here’s
one to add to that slim file marked “Arthouse Directors Who Went To Hollywood –
And Lived To Tell The Tale”. In 2008, Austrian Stefan Ruzowitzky scooped the
Foreign Film Oscar for his offbeat concentration-camp saga The Counterfeiters;
five years on, he’s pitched up in rural Detroit to make a modest crime thriller
about characters criss-crossing amid a Thanksgiving snowstorm. Ruzowitzky
spends unusual time introducing these folks – fugitive siblings Eric Bana and
Olivia Wilde, ex-con Charlie Hunnam, devoted Sissy Spacek and hubby Kris
Kristofferson – which allows him to spring surprises with plotting,
American-issue family values, and especially with his performers: Wilde, in
particular, transforms from saucer-eyed clothes-horse to persuasively wily
siren. If the destination proves less intriguing than its various journeys
promise, it’s still the kind of craftily assembled, generally watchable B-movie
that might merit a gamble should everything else sell out tonight.
Deadfall opens in cinemas nationwide today.
No comments:
Post a Comment