As Denis Villeneuve has been honored in his native Canada with the National Arts Centre Award 2011, he turned at the award ceremony a short film with the beautiful title “Rated R for nudity”.
Self-deprecating is the director in front to influence his audience with suggestive image and text overlays and granted the possibility equal insight into his own subconscious. In particular, when a voiceover says, mutatis mutandis, to on the canvas but the name Steven Spielberg appears “My dream is to be the next Ingmar Bergman was”.
These jokingly-revealing scene renames amazingly prophetic why the French Canadians is four years later in such demand in Hollywood. Because there Villeneuve is now considered artists who can combine the supposedly exclusive qualities of Bergmans and a Spielberg. In fact, it is understood Villeneuve as few contemporary filmmakers, complex psychological interior views translate into an impressive, effortlessly oscillating between realism and phantasmagoria imagery.
mirror images of violence
And made him Canadian productions like “Maelstrom” (2000) or “Polytechnique” (2009), first to the estimated arthouse favorite, as he has with his Oscar-nominated drama “The woman who sings”, the feverish game of deception “Enemy “and at the latest with his acclaimed US debut” established Prisoners “as the hope of the American film industry. So to Villeneuve in the near future with Amy Adams in the lead role to realize the science fiction film “The Story of Your Life”, and then perhaps to take over directing a sequel to Ridley Scott’s futuristic neo-noir classic “Blade Runner”.
However, before this ambitious future projects will start his thriller “Sicario”, where Villeneuve again the fearless adult access to a genre material tries, who had designed the kidnapping drama “Prisoners” so exciting. This approach succeeds at least in furious kick, which introduces the cuteness of Emily Blunt FBI agent Kate Macer. In the violent storming of a detached house on the border between Arizona and Mexico and her team discover Macer dozens corpses that were built into the walls of the building. There are victims of a steadily escalating drug war, wants in the rapidly flown Government Agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) to intervene with a newly formed Special Forces
In the video:. The trailer for “Sicario”
With the promise to bring those responsible for their atrocities to justice, he recruited Kate for his unorthodox Task Force. For the part except US elite soldiers also Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro), a taciturn consultant with undefined order. Regardless of applicable laws this force begins its campaign against the cross-border cartel operating, and soon Kate has to wonder whether the purpose really justifies all means questionable here. This applies not least to the procedure Alejandro, who seems to follow as enigmatic mercenary a personal agenda.
What moral and ethical coordinates differ in the conflict nor the illegally operating executive and a Sicario, an assassin? This question of the mirror image of violence represents Villeneuve just in the first half of the film with mandatory emphasis and on equal footing with his skeptical protagonist.
No doubt Emily Blunt has found in the watchful as conscientious law guardian Kate one of her best roles, and impressive they can overshadow the increasing doubts and hidden injuries of figure behind Kate’s professionalism.
capitulation to the stereotypes
This is because even in the center of the most memorable scenes, including the brilliantly staged transfer of a detained drug dealer from the Mexican Juarez in the USA , If the police convoy hurtling through the ravaged city to the border, is this followed by more and more gangsters, only shortly before the finish in traffic and thus end up in a possibly deadly showdown, then the result is one of the most exciting action sequences recently.
But fatally neglected the script of Taylor Sheridan mid-story so engaging his quarreling heroine to the last third almost entirely to condemn Emily Blunt to passivity. Instead, Benicio del Toro may routinely played his avenger Alejandro can practice lone vigilante justice in the border area, which “Sicario” controls both narratively and scenically in too familiar Genregefilde.
Given the excellent cast and the previously shown dramatic potential is more than regrettable: the war on drugs is no gain, but therefore a promising film does not have to necessarily capitulate to the clichés of popular drugs thriller
<. p> But exactly does “Sicario” at the end, and so will unfortunately despite great moments a missed opportunity. no Bergman, no Spielberg and not enough Villeneuve
Sicario
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