| Posted by: Tyrone at December 7, 2001, 9:46 pm | | Topic: Video Capsule: Frantic (7/10) Forum: JoBlo | | I was afraid it was awful, but I really enjoyed it 8/10. What a great movie. In Roman Polanski's smart thriller FRANTIC the City of Lights is a murky smear of hotel lobbies, neon signs, Pizza the Huts and callous bureaucrats who misunderstand you, if they're listening. Which is a problem for visiting conventioneer Dr. Richard Walker. He doesn't speak French and, stepping out of that shower, he finds his wife Sondra's been kidnapped. FRANTIC is full of Hitchcock [rooftop vertigo, the perils of showering. Think of VERTIGO and PSYCHO]. Walker's only clue is an unidentified woman's suitcase of clothes, a scrawled phone number and a Statue-of-Liberty souvenir. A dumbfounded, jetlagged fish out of water, he flounders from concierge to cop, useless embassy factotum to blase' baggage official to [as things accelerate] a dead man named De'de' and a live wire named Michele. FRANTIC is vintage Polanski, with its relentless paranoia, irony, diffident strangers [the smug bartender, the sullen embassy Marine] and nutty cameos [including that culty punk from Jean-Jacques Beineix's DIVA as a drunken witness, and a Jah-jivey Jamaican who mistakes Walker's wife-search for a cocaine hustle]. And Polanski forgos the mood-marshalling Hitchcock cellos for his own brand of good old quiet tension, here made eerier by Witold Sobocinski's high and low camera angles. Beautiful movie. [This message has been edited by Tyrone (edited 12-10-2001).] |
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