The Truth About Charlie (2002)
Directed by Jonathan Demme
Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwind marriage to enigmatic Charlie. Upon her return to Paris, she finds that both her apartment and her bank account have been emptied, and her husband has been murdered. Stuck in ever-increasing danger and with four men pursuing her, another stranger offers assistance - but who can she trust?
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Then you made “The Truth about Charlie,” the whole point of which was to make a case for Thandie Newton to be this generation’s Audrey Hepburn.
Perhaps after squandering his Oscar and Indie cred on such slight efforts as Beloved, The Truth About Charlie, and The Manchurian Candidate (the last two unnecessary remakes), he decided to rediscover his cinematic muse.
And while Demme's recent remakes of old spy thrillers (The Truth About Charlie, The Manchurian Candidate) have been muddled flops, that doesn't seem to trouble the director one bit—he just trains his ever-curious camera on what's next.
In Demme’s last personal fiction film, The Truth About Charlie (I’m not counting his Manchurian Candidate remake), the overflowing humanismmulticultural musicians everywhere you looked, and the camera made you lookoverwhelmed the narrative.
Moving down the line, when was the last time director Jonathan Demme (2002's " The Truth About Charlie ") has been this loose yet assured in his filmmaking craft?
With this film, Mark Wahlberg is appearing in his third recent re-make (the other two: Planet of the Apes and The Truth About Charlie ).
Wahlberg, who struck out in a big way in the misguided remake of "Planet of the Apes" and again in the muddled "The Truth About Charlie," is far more at home here.
In fact, a heist does occur in Italy (which at least excuses the title) although, unfortunately, Mark Wahlberg is still in it and he’s as much of a charisma-free zone here as he was in The Truth About Charlie.