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Self-destructive journalist Pierre Peders (Buscemi) is no stranger to violence and inhumanity. Having made his name as a war reporter he has traveled the world seeing some of the most horrifying sights imaginable. So he feels that his current puff-piece assignment an interview with pop diva TV and movie star Katya (Miller) is beneath his dignity. The two meet in a restaurant and instantly it s a collision of two worlds Pierre s serious political focus and Katya s superficial world of celebrity. But perhaps all is not as it appears. When Pierre is slightly injured in a traffic accident inadvertently caused by Katya she s the
Self-destructive journalist Pierre Peders (Buscemi) is no stranger to violence and inhumanity. Having made his name as a war reporter he has traveled the world seeing some of the most horrifying sights imaginable. So he feels that his current puff-piece assignment an interview with pop diva TV and movie star Katya (Miller) is beneath his dignity. The two meet in a restaurant and instantly it s a collision of two worlds Pierre s serious political focus and Katya s superficial world of celebrity. But perhaps all is not as it appears. When Pierre is slightly injured in a traffic accident inadvertently caused by Katya she s the proverbial girl who causes traffic accidents they end up in Katya s spacious loft for a long night of talking drinking sparring and coming close to a sort of embattled intimacy. Each is scarred in their own way aching from deep hidden pain. But honest revelations give way to punishing deceptions. Their confrontation evolves into a passionate verbal chess game spiked with wit intrigue and sexual tension capped with a riveting twist ending.System Requirements:Run Time: 84 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 043396214811 Manufacturer No: 21481
After directing three films and an Emmy-winning episode of The Sopranos, Steve Buscemi turned to Holland--specifically to the work of Theo van Gogh. Before his 2004 murder by an Islamic extremist, the Dutch filmmaker (and Vincent van Gogh descendent) was planning an English-language version of his 2003 Interview--even considering Madonna for the Katja Schuurman role. In Buscemi's reconfiguration, the actor plays jaded journalist Pierre. Once a war correspondent, he now takes any gig he can get. When his editor assigns him an interview with tabloid fixture Katya (Sienna Miller, doing her finest work to date), Pierre grudgingly acquiesces. Their first meeting in a restaurant is a bust. But through a chance second encounter, they continue their verbal volly in her roomy Manhattan loft, where Pierre discovers that Katya is sharper than her image suggests, and she learns about his tragic past. They flirt, fight, kiss, and cry. By the end it becomes clear that one of them isn't being completely honest. As an acting exercise, Interview gets the job done, and Miller's American accent is especially convincing. As a story, it's less satisfying, not because of the minimal cast or stage-like setting--My Dinner With André made a virtue out of similar limitations--but because the opponents aren't evenly matched. They're also less agreeable than Louis Malle's dining companions. Interview is first in a trio of van Gogh adaptations, with Stanley Tucci attached to Blind Date and John Turturro to 1-900. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Release date: 11 December 2007
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0043396214811 UPC: 043396214811
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