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Interview (2007) (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
80 min + 9 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2007 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )
Netherlands ( France, Benelux )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Steve Buscemi

Written By:
Steve Buscemi
Theodor Holman

Actors:
Steve Buscemi ..... Pierre Peders
Sienna Miller ..... Katya
Michael Buscemi ..... Robert Peders
Tara Elders ..... Maggie
David Schechter ..... Maitre'd
Molly Griffith ..... Waitress
Elizabeth Bracco ..... Woman at Restaurant
James Villemaire ..... Man at Restaurant
Jackson Loo ..... Fan at Restaurant
Craig muMs Grant ..... Cab Driver (as muMs)
Doc Dougherty ..... Truck Driver
Donna Hanover ..... Commentator
Wayne Wilcox ..... Hunky Actor
Danny Schechter ..... Political Pundit
Philippe Vonlanthen ..... Autograph Seeker #1

Synopsis:

Everyone wants a piece of a celebrity. Pierre is a political reporter, assigned to write a fluff piece on Katya, a blond who acts in slasher movies and a Fox show about single girls in the city. The interview, at a restaurant, goes badly: she's late, he's unprepared and rude. After leaving, he bangs his head in a fender bender and she takes him to her loft to clean the wound. Lubricated by alcohol and competitive natures, the interview resumes. She takes phone calls from her fiancé, Pierre reads her diary on her computer. They discuss wounds, he expresses concern, father-daughter feelings arise. Out come camcorders to tape their darkest secrets. Is friendship or more in the offing?

This is a dialogue-driven movie, (see 'My Dinner with Andre' for an example) and begins with the two main characters meeting in a restaurant for an interview. One character is a journalist and the other a B-grade movie actress, and the journalist has been sent to obtain gossipy information and provide publicity for the actress' new movie. The initial meeting doesn't go well, but, due to unforeseen events, the two of them wind up in the actress' gorgeous loft apartment for hours. The two discuss all kinds of things, on a very emotionally intimate level. Without giving away too much, I'd just like to say that my attention was riveted the entire time, and the ending was surprising, to say the least.

Directed by the actor Steve Buscemi, and based on an earlier film by the Dutch director Theo van Gogh (whose slaying by an Islamic extremist in 2004 inspired this remake), the movie is one of those chatty, catty, conceptual face-offs that are often best left to the stage and for which sports metaphors seem to have been invented. Two well-matched opponents enter, spar, punch, clinch, flail, break, draw blood (metaphoric, literal), block and knock down.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 28 January, 2010.