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...They're young. They're in love. They kill people." That was the ad line that Warren Beatty slapped on his 1967 movie Bonnie and Clyde. In The International, written by Eric Warren Singer and directed by Tom Tykwer, the IBBC execs might say, "We're respected. We're everywhere. We kill people, bankroll terrorists and crush the hopes of all rugged idealists...
...sure is that it's the first big Hollywood-style project from the director of Run Lola Run, the cunning micro-melodrama in which the same events are played in three variations and the entertained viewer is in and out in 76 minutes. If Tykwer's use of pixelated photos, split screens and cartooning in Lola gets you thinking that The International will offer a fizzily anarchic reimagination of the thriller genre, fuhggedaboutit. Running or stumbling a full two hours, this is a medium-IQ sample of spy dystopia - dour, sit-throughable and generically entertaining...
...take Tykwer's film even half seriously, it will be like one of those horror movies that you leave suspecting that the crazy, ingenious superkiller is waiting for you outside. A warning, then, to the susceptible: after seeing The International, don't dare...
...fooling hard-core sex scenes. But John Cameron Mitchell's movie brims with so much fun and heartbreak that it upset few people and beguiled many. The densest concentration of film talent this year - 21 directors, including Alfonso Cuarón, Alexander Payne, Walter Salles, Sylvain Chomet and Tom Tykwer - collaborated on Paris, Je T'aime, an omnibus movie of short segments, each set in a different Paris neighborhood. This sort of enterprise can invite directorial indifference, but at least half of the episodes are charming or poignant, with a lovely, lingering aftertaste. Special mention to Joel and Ethan Coen...
...10th arrondisement. Tykwer brings together a budding actress (Portman) and a very capable young blind fellow (Melchior Beslon) and compresses a love affair into a kaleidoscope of speeded-up images. Parisians zip by them on busy streets as the couple hold onto each other for dear love...