THE COUNSELOR -- from an original screenplay by Cormac McCarthy opens today in the U.S. * Wildlife Is Tame; Not the Humans By MANOHLA DARGIS, New York Times, 10-25-13 “The Counselor,” Ridley Scott’s terrifying, implacable new movie, opens on a seductive scene. The setting is a softly lighted bedroom in which two people are murmuring sweet, dirty nothings under a white sheet. You don’t see who they are until there’s a cut to under the sheet, bringing you close enough to Michael Fassbender and Penélope Cruz to feel like an interloper. Wrapped in a radiant intimacy, these two beauties search each other’s bodies with tender looks and caresses, her lashes fluttering at his touch. It’s as if they were adrift in “the world of light” of Mount Olympus described by Homer in “The Odyssey,” that place where “gods live their days of pleasure.” Gods fall though, few as mercilessly or memorably as those in “The Counselor,” a tale of good and evil, but because it was written by Cormac McCarthy, mostly evil. Mr. Fassbender plays the title character, a corrupt, unnamed, high-flying Texas lawyer. He moves fast, as does this film, which soon jumps from Olympus to a garage in Mexico, where men and dogs slip through shadows, then jumps north of the border where another woman rides a horse, flanked by a cheetah chasing a jack rabbit. The hare escapes in a swirl of dust, but by the end of this scene, Mr. Scott has seized your attention with a primitive, predatory vision, one red in tooth and claw. Full review here: nytimes/2013/10/25/movies/the-counselor-a-cormac-mccarthy-tale-of-mostly-evil.html
Posted on: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 11:36:20 +0000
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