The Quiet American (2002)
Directed by Phillip Noyce
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.
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Instead we get a film of “The Giver” 20 years later, produced by star Jeff Bridges and directed by capable Hollywood vet Phillip Noyce ( “Salt,” “The Quiet American” ), as a late-summer cultural leftover, an apparent imitation of things Lowry’s book actually inspired.
Directed by Australian Phillip Noyce (Newsfront, Salt, The Quiet American), The Giver deserves plenty of part marks for its intriguing concepts.
His Rabbit Proof Fence and The Quiet American are smart, exceptionally well crafted movies.
Muy lejos de los mejores exponentes del formato en cuestión, espectro que abarca desde lo estadounidense hiper demagógico aunque disfrutable de Enlace Mortal ( Phone Booth , 2002), de Joel Schumacher, y Celular ( Cellular , 2004), de David R. Ellis, ambas escritas por el querido Larry Cohen, hasta la pata europea más verosímil de El Desconocido (2015), del español Dani de la Torre, y La Culpa ( Den Skyldige , 2018), del sueco Gustav Möller, la primera sostenida en una gran actuación de Luis Tosar y la segunda en una equivalente de Jakob Cedergren, Desesperada cuenta con un metraje de apenas 84 minutos pero aun así aburre con su colección de conversaciones previsibles, flashbacks melosos/ lacrimógenos, situaciones repetidas y un background de cartón pintado para cada uno de los personajes, combo que no consigue corregir una Watts también productora que literalmente es lo único bueno de la película del australiano Noyce, quien empezó a dirigir en la frontera espiritual entre el ozploitation y la…
The magic of Atonement results from its clever and impressive script by noted British playwright Christopher Hampton (The Quiet American).
Working from a screenplay by Christopher Hampton ( The Quiet American ), director Joe Wright ( Pride & Prejudice ) deftly handles the film's first half, set over a single summer day in 1930s England, weaving past and present events back and forth to create an illusion of disjointed time.
While watching Joe Wright's intensely cinematic interpretation of McEwan's book (co-executive-produced by McEwan and written by Christopher Hampton, best known for adapting "Dangerous Liaisons," "The Honorary Consul"/"Beyond the Limit," "The Quiet American," "The Good Father), I kept wondering how far into the story I had actually read.
If anything, "Atonement," adapted from Ian McEwan's magnificent novel by Christopher Hampton ("The Quiet American") is even better, the tragedy of the story intensifying the romance, the novel's unique structure providing an uncommon literary twist.
Director Phillip Noyce, who made a mainstream name for himself with the Tom Clancy thrillers Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger , took some time off in 2002 to flex his artistic muscles, releasing two very good, very literate films in Rabbit Proof Fence and The Quiet American .
A first class director, Phillip Noyce ("Patriot Games," "The Quiet American"), and a first class female action star, Angelina Jolie (taking the role originally intended for Tom Cruise), team up with a second, sometimes third-tier writer, Kurt Wimmer ("The Recruit," "Law Abiding Citizen"), and deliver a film that works more often than not.
And, importantly, director Phillip Noyce is both stylish and humane (see his impressive 2002 double-bill of “Rabbit-Proof Fence” and “The Quiet American”), and he manages to give the action real punch while occasionally teasing something like genuine sentiment out of the script’s cartoonish slightness.
Director Phillip Noyce, largely quiet since The Quiet American (2002), makes up for lost time and unexercised decibels.
On paper Salt sounds like an interesting film prospect; a spy thriller starring Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetal Ejiofor, all excellent actors who tend to pick good projects to work on, under the steady hands of Australian director Phillip Noyce (The Quiet American, Dead Calm).
We can still remember the power and the poignancy of his serious films Rabbit-Proof Fence and The Quiet American.