Film Festival 09 - The Limits of Control
The Limits of Control
USA 2009, 116m
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Festivals: Sydney 2009
"Slippery and seductive, Jim Jarmusch's anti-thriller is a
perfectly calibrated exercise in conspiracy cool. The Lone Man
(Isaac de Bankolé) is an enigma wrapped in an enigma wrapped
in a selection of very fine silk threads. Travelling first to
Madrid then to Seville (ravishingly photographed by Christopher
Doyle) he attracts a lot of attention from double-crossing agent
Paz de la Huerta (naked beneath a transparent trench-coat) and a
string of mysterious associates including Tilda Swinton in white
wig and matching Stetson; John Hurt in full rant; and a hyped-up
and muscular Gael García Bernal. With a perfectly honed eye
for surrealist form and modern Spanish design, Jarmusch is
preoccupied with modus operandi, far more interested in the
shimmering approach than the thrill of the chase." - Clare Stewart,
Sydney Film Festival. "Like a perfect piece of jazz - it sends you
out of the theater in a blissed haze." - Dennis Dermody,
Papermag
www.limitsofcontrol.com
