Clooney gets his girl and keeps his clothes on.
With the Ian Curtis biopic Control, Anton Corbijn made a very smooth switch from photographer to filmmaker and shows with his follow-up movie ,The American, that this was no one-off.
The film may be a star vehicle for George Clooney ,but it also a tight and tense Zen thriller which is not afraid to maintain a slow pace.
Clooney (Edward/Mr. Butterfly) plays a hit-man and gun expert who works for a shady organisation. He is pursued by Swedes and is holed up in a sleepy Italian town.
Clooney looks immaculate throughout – Who washes and irons his clothes? How come his suit is so perfectly pressed? We need to be told.
His employers are not named but could easily be called Designer Assassins Inc. (D.A.) with a suitable advertising slogan being ‘Need someone dead? Come to D.A. and get your killing done in style’. Continue reading
