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Bookmark this pageThe Limits of Control (2008)
Director: Jim Jarmusch
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From Time Out Online
Jarmusch’s too-cool-for-school latest is a star-strewn Antonioni-esque Bond movie which creatively skirts the line between pastiche and noir genre essay. De Bankole plays a monosyllabic Zen hit man whose latest (only?) mission sees him take in the museums and cafes of Madrid, Seville and Almeria while occasionally participating in cryptic exchanges with an international cast of eccentric helpmeets. Vividly photographed by Chris Doyle, Jarmusch adopts Bankole’s limited field of vision to tell this quasi-shaggy dog tale, and as such, the luxuries of back-story and character motivation are casually discarded in favour of pushing the rich atmospherics, cool textures, tonal ambiguity and playful symbolism to the fore.Author: David Jenkins
Time Out Online London Film Festival 2009
Cast & crew
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Isaach De Bankolé, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, John Hurt, Gael García Bernal, Paz de la Huerta, Youki Kudoh, Hiam Abbass, Alex Descas, Jean-François Stévenin, Óscar Jaenada, Luis Tosar full cast
Duration: 116 mins
US Release: May 1 2009
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