The Limits of Control (2009)
Genre: Mystery / Crime
Duration: 116 minuten
Country:
United States / Japan
Directed by: Jim Jarmusch
Stars: Isaach De Bankolé, Bill Murray and Tilda Swinton
IMDb score:
6,2 (21.918)
Releasedate: 1 May 2009
The Limits of Control plot
"For every way in, there is another way out."
We follow a mysterious, lonely man, in an old Spanish landscape. It is a stranger who engages in illegal activities. When he's trying to get his job done, he doesn't trust anyone and that makes his purpose far from clear.
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Reviews & comments
starbright boy (moderator films)
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- 22474 messages
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Although Broken Flowers was a great movie, it was a bit of Jarmusch-making-a-Jarmusch. And far from his best film. With this film he convinces me more and all fear that Jarmusch will become less can go to the trash. There are few more balanced directors, in terms of level.
The Limits of Control is a number of things at once. First of all, a stripped-down film. Sometimes the film comes across as a crime film with the plot largely omitted. As if an extensive script has started in which a lot has been deleted along the way. As a result, what remains almost seems to consist of the ritual that the protagonist repeats over and over in order to achieve his goal. Furthermore, it is a city film, with a lot of attention for architecture, the lines, angles and the like of buildings are often used in the compostions. The Limits of Control is also a film that constantly hints at philosophical questions, especially about art and the role of the artist. But the dialogues here are emphatically a stylistic device.
Add to that the beautiful camera work by Doyle (very recognizable). And I've been enjoying another movie by Jim Jarmusch. One of his least accessible movies, though, you've been warned.
By the way, Jarmusch has to make something soon. Except for that Neil Young documentary and his contribution to Ten Minutes Older, I've seen everything now.
4.0*
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blurp194
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- 5543 messages
- 4226 votes
Very good.
Where I often have trouble with films that lack a clear story, this one really captivates me beyond expectations. The subtlety with which detail after detail is shown, but does not really reveal anything. Images that replace the story in their power, dialogues that say something not through content but through form. A soundtrack that tells more than images and dialogue combined - despite the fact that the soundtrack is instrumental as a whole. Astonishing actually that the ordinary style-over-substance fanboys seem to give up here. Can someone really explain that to me.
The casting is on the same genius level. Isaach De Bankolé who has just the right mysterious look. Gael García Bernal as an ordinary Spanish/Mexican fringe figure, and therefore unrecognizable. Paz de la Huerta in the title role as 'nude' - you can hardly imagine more subtle humor. Bill Murray who once again gets to do a very nice cameo - what a hero he really is.
But the best thing is the beauty of the image. There is also the only criticism - there are some sloppy cut scenes at the end. And the close-up on Isaach De Bankolé's hands is too much. But those are details.
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BlueVelvet
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- 1316 messages
- 785 votes
The best movies are indistinguishable from a dream you may have had.
Sometimes reflections tell me more than the things they reflect.
Boris, Sunn O))) and Earth.
And yet the film dragged on.
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