This is one of those movies that slide in under the radar to show you how it's done...
Big reveals - yes/ Reverse ferrets - yes/ Slippery dialogue - yes/ Compelling visuals - yes/ A voiceover which actually works - yes/ and so on.
The dialogue flows easy like 20 year old scotch and the performances convey all the slips and slides of this complicated bunch of criminals and their circle... All are complicit in one way or another.
Made quickly during lockdown on a set not far from Mark Rylance's home, and shot in story order, this is a wonderful example of guerrilla film-making, in and out, done and dusted, no messing about. Probably only possible because of Rylance's name but think of all the other "names" in this production - it's a shedload of talent, mostly British talent pretending to be Chicagoan. Period set and costumes and period weapons and McGuffins.
So it's a movie that sounds like a stage play - so what? And uses tricks like a single set - so what? It rests in good company with Three Billboards (cinema), Rope (cinema), or Hangmen (theatre).
I love the final resolution for its imagery - this is what it's all about - atropos.
Big reveals - yes/ Reverse ferrets - yes/ Slippery dialogue - yes/ Compelling visuals - yes/ A voiceover which actually works - yes/ and so on.
The dialogue flows easy like 20 year old scotch and the performances convey all the slips and slides of this complicated bunch of criminals and their circle... All are complicit in one way or another.
Made quickly during lockdown on a set not far from Mark Rylance's home, and shot in story order, this is a wonderful example of guerrilla film-making, in and out, done and dusted, no messing about. Probably only possible because of Rylance's name but think of all the other "names" in this production - it's a shedload of talent, mostly British talent pretending to be Chicagoan. Period set and costumes and period weapons and McGuffins.
So it's a movie that sounds like a stage play - so what? And uses tricks like a single set - so what? It rests in good company with Three Billboards (cinema), Rope (cinema), or Hangmen (theatre).
I love the final resolution for its imagery - this is what it's all about - atropos.