- The Tailor Of Panama [Fr Import]
The Tailor Of Panama [Fr Import]
| Format: | DVD |
|---|---|
| Stil: | Spielfilm |
| Label: | G.C.T.H.V. |
| Zustand: | Wie Neu |
| ArtikelNr.: | MD453603 |
| Preis: | 13 € |
Beschreibung:
Farbe, Dolby, Widescreen, Import, Region 2, PAL
Verfügbarkeit: sofort, da Titel am Lager
The Tailor of Panama is less a spy thriller than a complex, cynical account of the way a couple of deeply flawed fantasists happen to get together in a political hotspot and semi-accidentally bring about what could be a crisis in global politics. Scripted by John le Carré from his own novel, which is itself an extended reworking of Graham Greene s Our Man in Havana, the story follows MI6 agent Andy Osnard, played by Pierce Brosnan as a dishevelled and amoral pseudo-Bond, relegated to Panama after various mess-ups, who looks about for a local informant, hitting upon Harry Pendel (Geoffrey Rush), an ex-convict who has reinvented himself as a Savile Row tailor in exile. Osnard cajoles and blackmails Harry, who has financial worries and great connections, into passing on political gossip and eventually spinning stories the intelligence bosses want to hear about imaginary revolutionary movements and government instabilities. As Harry s relationships with his idealistic wife (Jamie Lee Curtis) and a pair of literally battered ex-insurgents are compromised and complicated by treacheries, Osnard schemes to take a huge profit and comedy slides into tragedy. John Boorman was an odd choice for le Carré, and doesn t quite get the best out of the material, eliciting lead performances that are admirable and impressive but Rush is not quite desperate enough for the squirming loser who holds conversations with his dead uncle (Harold Pinter) and Brosnan can t quite summon the sleaziness necessary for his odious character, but there are marvellous supporting character bits, especially from an unrecognisable Brendan Gleeson as a boozy rebel and John Fortune as the cannily corrupt British Ambassador.
Farbe, Dolby, Widescreen, Import, Region 2, PAL
Verfügbarkeit: sofort, da Titel am Lager
The Tailor of Panama is less a spy thriller than a complex, cynical account of the way a couple of deeply flawed fantasists happen to get together in a political hotspot and semi-accidentally bring about what could be a crisis in global politics. Scripted by John le Carré from his own novel, which is itself an extended reworking of Graham Greene s Our Man in Havana, the story follows MI6 agent Andy Osnard, played by Pierce Brosnan as a dishevelled and amoral pseudo-Bond, relegated to Panama after various mess-ups, who looks about for a local informant, hitting upon Harry Pendel (Geoffrey Rush), an ex-convict who has reinvented himself as a Savile Row tailor in exile. Osnard cajoles and blackmails Harry, who has financial worries and great connections, into passing on political gossip and eventually spinning stories the intelligence bosses want to hear about imaginary revolutionary movements and government instabilities. As Harry s relationships with his idealistic wife (Jamie Lee Curtis) and a pair of literally battered ex-insurgents are compromised and complicated by treacheries, Osnard schemes to take a huge profit and comedy slides into tragedy. John Boorman was an odd choice for le Carré, and doesn t quite get the best out of the material, eliciting lead performances that are admirable and impressive but Rush is not quite desperate enough for the squirming loser who holds conversations with his dead uncle (Harold Pinter) and Brosnan can t quite summon the sleaziness necessary for his odious character, but there are marvellous supporting character bits, especially from an unrecognisable Brendan Gleeson as a boozy rebel and John Fortune as the cannily corrupt British Ambassador.
On the DVD: The picture is presented in an anamorphic 2.31:1 ratio with a Dolby Digital soundtrack. The feature-length John Boorman commentary is very strong on working with the actors and convincing the Panamanian authorities to let him make a film depicting them as unredeemably corrupt. There s also a featurette-length press conference-type session with Geoffrey Rush and Pierce Brosnan and, most interestingly, an alternate ending nixed as too downbeat by the studio though it satisfyingly allows a comeuppance for a baddie who gets away with it in the release version. --Kim Newman