‘The Mafia’s Tailor’, a made-to-measure suit from film noir

Now that we’re all wearing Chanel Number 5, we smell delicious, and you have to see how quickly some have changed their mind. There is no way to win to convince. It must be that this sweet aroma has reached our rooms, because there are a few novelties that smell very good.

The first is ‘The tailor of the mafia’, a film with quality craftsmanship, but it doesn’t achieve what it could because it doesn’t take full advantage of a great actor like Mark Rylance (the man who can say the most). with less), neither for the good script, nor for the theatrical power of the event. Let me tell you. Rylance is an English tailor who settles in the Chicago of the 1950s gangsters, who become his customers and he becomes part of his criminal machinery, more out of sloth than anger.

The kidnapping of the protagonists, the confrontation between rival gangs, the unique setting, the film noir style, the brilliant dialogues, the revealing silences, everything is reminiscent of classics like ‘The Petrified Forest’ (1936) or ‘Key Largo’ ( 1948). A plot that takes place practically overnight and that becomes increasingly complex. Strongly recommended.

The next might seek the prestige of the previous, but as is often the case with its director, John Madden, he prefers to sketch a good story and then lose himself in the bloom that the viewer likes, without to finish the movie. This has already happened to him in other works of his such as ‘Shakespeare in love’ (1998), ‘The exotic Marigold Hotel’ (2011) or ‘The debt’ (2010).

In ‘The Weapon of Deception’ he tells us a story of spies in World War II, based on an operation to give the Nazis a pig in a bag (now we would say tweet for news) to misinform them about the Allied landing in Sicily. Colin Firth leads a strong British cast for a conventional plot. What has been said, an entertaining, aseptic and neat film, one of those films that leaves no trace and with a certain smell of camphor.

Another one from WWII. ‘The Conference’ is a German film that refers to the events that took place in the German city of Wannsse in January 1942. There, a series of clever Nazi officials decided to apply the so-called final solution to the Jews (the euphemisms are nothing new).

A necessary, theatrical film that tries to be extremely faithful to the story. It perfectly reflects the concept that Hannah Arendt outlined in her book on the Eichmann Trial, which was at that conference, about the banality of evil when disguised as bureaucracy. If looking in the mirror isn’t enough, Putin could see her to identify the real Nazis.

Malena Alterio, Santi Millán, Natalia de Molina and Carlos Areces are some of the actors who by reading them already know the record of the film I am going to talk about. ‘Espejo, Espejo’ is a Spanish bitter comedy in which four employees of the same company literally face their reflection in the mirror. The film tries to show that our worst enemy is ourselves (in case someone didn’t know).

We would do well to have faith in these good interpreters, who always make us laugh, but not in the rhythm or the irregular development of the story. Its only virtue is that it is one of the last works of the ill-fated Verónica Forqué, but I wouldn’t want to miss a regatta to go and see it.

When Gerard Butler is in a movie, everything that can go wrong usually goes wrong. He is like my abhorred Nicolas Cage, who always fails in his artistic choices, a compass man who always marks the south. With that background, it won’t surprise you if I tell you that ‘Assassin Games’ is by far the worst of the day. Pure action so we don’t think, where the hunt for a man, who is locked up by several hitmen in a small police station, becomes a salad of pointless shots.

The highlight of the week was the end of the heroic resistance in Mariupol, which is sure to have a movie version soon. Although it was not ‘The Alamo’ (1960) by the Ukrainians, nor our ‘The Last of the Philippines’ (1945), it was his ‘Saving Private Ryan’ (1998).

Have a movie week.

Source: La Verdad

Wayne

I’m Wayne Wickman, a professional journalist and author for Today Times Live. My specialty is covering global news and current events, offering readers a unique perspective on the world’s most pressing issues. I’m passionate about storytelling and helping people stay informed on the goings-on of our planet.