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Interview

Saturday, May 19, 2007 ★ 12:07 ★ Category Films

I went to see Interview, a remake by Steve Buscemi of the original (Dutch) Interview by Theo van Gogh (who has been murdered some time ago by a muslim extremist) in Kriterion (which is only a couple of minutes from the location of the murder).

Interview still

Image courtesy of Sony Classics

Quick plot outline: a not-so-interested political journalist Pierre (Steve Buscemi) is sent out to interview a famous trash movie and soap actress Katya (Sienna Miller). He is completely unprepared, but after a while he manages to get the conversation going. After a while you start thinking who is actually the interviewer and who is the actor, since the game played by interviewer and the interviewee is not entirely honest, from both persons’ perspectives…

The film has lots of references to the original film, e.g. a truck with ‘Van Gogh movers’ written all over it, a quick appearance of the ‘real’ Katja Schuurman and Pierre Bokma and some photos on a desk.

Anyway, nothing really special about this film, but nice nonetheless to see a local Dutch production getting picked up by others. I didn’t see the original, but it is told the remake is a lot better.