The Interpreter (2005)

Director: Sydney Pollack
Writing credits: Martin Stellman, Brian Ward
Screen Play: Charles Randolph, Scott Frank, Steven Zaillian
Casts: Sean Penn, Nicole Kidman
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Year: 2005

Intense, real, thrilling, and bold at times. A typical setting for an Hollywood political movie with some love scene but how the love between Silvia (Nicole Kidman) and her brother was expressed on the screen and throughout the story line was surprisingly outstanding but implicit.

With the filming permission of UN building in hand, the team could have manipulated a few more spectacular scenes in order to make the most from such precious opportunity.
Stars Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman were the perfect match for the script and they simply look so natural as if they are really a broken-heart pale detective and an intelligent but fragile UN interpreter.
One of those typical pitfalls of these political thriller is that the whole twist and turn of the story line is formed by a couple of all-time Hollywood formulae. The background of the story is fresh in the movie industry in the last decade as far as I know but how the package was unfolded is rather predictable.
I'd rather put an eye on the historical background of White African. In fact, the name 'White African' is already full of controversy.

Posted: Sat - April 23, 2005 at 04:10 PM |