This movie was another highly anticipated one for me.
This movie starrs Danny Ramirez, John C. Reilly (“Licorice Pizza”), just to name a few.
This movie was directed by Claire Denis (“Irma Vep”).
This movie was released on October 14th 2022. It was rated R for sexual content, language, nudity, some violence.
Onto the premise: Based on a 1986 novel The Stars at Noon by Denis Johnson. The novel follows an unnamed American woman, supposedly a journalist, living in Managua, Nicaragua in 1984, during Sandinista rule. She originally traveled to Nicaragua as an observer for an anti-war group. She hustles as a prostitute at the Inter-Continental Hotel in Managua, hoping to leave Nicaragua one day. At the hotel, she eventually meets an unnamed English oil businessman whom she falls in love with. When the Englishman has falling out with Costa Ricans, the two flee together toward border. An American who is most likely a CIA agent tracks them and pressures her to sell out the Englishman.
This movie is a Drama/Romance/Thriller
So, I’ll admit that I grazed the synopsis and went into this film expecting an adaptation of “1984”-the description mentions a book version in that year.
It wasn’t until halfway through I’d realized I was in for a much less thrilling film. The lack of plot, moved forward by two bland, unlikeable characters, was only saved by the anticipation that this film was about to erupt into a science-fiction action plot.
If you imagine that the elusive US government they’re avoiding is actually a reimagined-Big Brother; that their bond is not just English-speakers in a foreign country but against a tapestry of enemy spies who don’t know the language and use otherworldly currency from the new “continent” of Nicaragua, it’s almost worth it. Although, at the end of the day, this is not a retelling of 1984 and there will be no science fiction tropes, so no, it’s not worth it in the slightest. Yes, I’m very disappointed in this movie.
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