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Ill Sleep When Im Dead
Widescreen Collection IN THEATRES: JUNE 18, 2004 (NY) JUNE 25, 2004 (LA)Cars full of fast-talking British hoods and rain-soaked city streets in the dead of night--that`s the stuff of which Mike Hodges`s (CRO... IN THEATRES: JUNE 18, 2004 (NY) JUNE 25, 2004 (LA)Cars full of fast-talking British hoods and rain-soaked city streets in the dead of night--that`s the stuff of which Mike Hodges`s (CROUPIER) impossibly cool neo-noir gangster thriller is made. Clive Owen plays Graham, a former top mobster who has since retired to a nomadic life in the woods. His little brother Davey (John Rhys-Davies) meanwhile swaggers through posh parties back in the city, dealing drugs and engaging in freewheeling sex and petty thefts until he`s violently sodomized by a white-haired car dealer (Malcolm McDowell). His subsequent suicide brings Graham back into the seedy underworld he left behind on a mission of revenge. Before he can find his brother`s rapist though, he has to tangle with the new head bad boy in town (Frank Stott), who thinks Graham`s come to take his old spot back.Much like Simon Fisher Turner`s dissonant, avante-jazz score, the film dodges a straight-ahead story and instead breaks out in moody variations in the key of noir. Fatalistic dialogue, extreme masculine anxiety, a cast teeming with eccentrics, desolate streets, gray beaches, darkened elevators, and foreboding alleyways all blend into an atonal crime-jazz poem. The inestimable Charlotte Rampling plays Graham`s concerned, and much older, ex-girlfriend. Fans of the more classic gangster entries may rest assured Graham eventually does rain violence down upon the deserving.
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| IN THEATRES: JUNE 18, 2004 (NY) JUNE 25, 2004 (LA)Cars full of fast-talking British hoods and rain-soaked city streets in the dead of night--that`s the stuff of which Mike Hodges`s (CROUPIER) impossibly cool neo-noir gangs... |
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