Interview (2007)
Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 122
Fresh: 70 | Rotten: 52
Captivating performances from Steve Buscemi and Sienna Miller make a seemingly simple premise gripping and entertaining.
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 16
Captivating performances from Steve Buscemi and Sienna Miller make a seemingly simple premise gripping and entertaining.
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With Interview, his fourth directorial outing, American actor-cum-director Steve Buscemi reworks a 2003 feature by the ill-fated Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh. Van Gogh originally intended to shoot an English-language version of the picture himself, but Buscemi signed on after the director's late 2004 assassination. The story concerns Pierre Peders (Buscemi), a steel-tough political correspondent infuriated by his editor's decision to hogtie him to a tabloid-level story about the seemingly vapid
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Sienna Miller
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Steve Buscemi
Pierre Peders
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Ultimately, this two-hander feels limited in scale, but frisky and diverting while it's on.
Top CriticA mixed bag of realism and arch, dramatic exaggeration.
This movie keeps falling out of rhythm just when it should be picking up pace. It's a fitful piece of wrong beginnings and false ends.
Interview feels more like a lab experiment/tribute than a committed, personal drama, leaving us with the sense that Buscemi wanted to feel more connected to this material than he actually did.
Buscemi's film conveys the spirit of its source material but doesn't make a satisfying transmogrification out of its homage.
Stick with it for Miller's gutsy tour de force and the kick of watching Buscemi, as actor and filmmaker, turn an experiment into a mesmerizing battle of wills.
The resulting film is a boring hour-and-a-half of watching two immature adults sink down to the Lord of the Flies lowest for no reason and hurl bile and vitriol at each other.
The movie really started off on a good note, but then it just got repetitive.
It's a bizarrely unaffecting film, completely detached even in its emotional scenes, that's worth seeing for Buscemi and Miller but won't linger with you for too long.
From its opening frame to its final revelation, Interview hums with life.
Interview comes across more like an acting exercise than a workable story.
I can't get on the Sienna Miller bandwagon. I can damn with faint praise: she's perfectly competent as an actor -- but that's it.
A remake of a drama by Theo van Gogh, the Dutch director murdered by Muslim extremists in 2004 for having made a documentary depicting the mistreatment of females in the name of Islam.
Two interviewers in search of a subject. That's the best way to describe this natural-feeling yet sometimes artificial two-person show.
The wonderful thing about Interview is that we have no idea where it is going to lead. It's honest, conflicted and surprising, as journalist and actress battle words and emotions in a potent drama that takes us to unexpected places
Interview is well-made but depends almost entirely on its acting. Neither of the two principals let it down, even when the screenplay isn't quite as sharp as it could have been.
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Largely a two-hander, Interview features strong performances by the two leads, writer/director Steve Buscemi and Sienna Miller. The chemistry between the two actors is strong, and Miller, especially, is able to find nuances in the banal.
The script's pace seems off. It's hard to hold a film audience's interest with only two characters and a single set, and when the camera should be moving, it isn't and vice versa. Buscemi isn't a great director, but he gives himself and Miller plenty of freedom, which saves the film from becoming too trivial and claustrophobic.
Overall, this film is decent and worth seeing if only for the leading actors.