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Hollywood’s Europe is either grim and antediluvian or picture postcard pretty and dripping with old-world style. This movie brings us the latter in spades casting two top-notch Hollywood stars alongside a European director and making them do their stuff in the Renaissance streets and waterways of Venice. In doing so it creates something of a fashion event celebrating the American perception of Europe.
The acting rages from awful to acceptable, the magnificent Venetian backdrop is without a coherent or convincing storyline, but throughout the 103 minutes of this otherwise inconsistent movie the wardrobe team keep hanging one beautiful dress after another on Angelina Jolie.
A healthy suspension of disbelief will prove a useful aid as you move swiftly through French vineyards shortly before arriving in Venice on a Eurostar railway line that has yet to be built and arrive at one of Venice’s most splendid hotels, the Danieli, which appears to have been moved from it’s original location.
The fable is a true shocker of innovation. Elise, is in love with Alexander, a mysterious man wanted by Interpol. After attempting to throw off her police tail, she travels from the beautiful city of Paris to the enchanted city of Venice, on the way dragging a naive American tourist and maths teacher into a web of intrigue while they share one of the most famous hotel suites on the planet. Will they fall in love? Is she in fact she and is he in fact he? Will they overcome the forces trying to separate them? Can you not wait to learn the answers?
It is one of the greatest mysteries of the film industry why European directors, upon receiving the Foreign-language Oscar, seem to wait for the right opportunity and then end up directing some semi-arty abomination with big names and an OK budget.
As it turns out it was a good thing that they did not put more dough in a film which after a month in the cinemas had failed to return even half of its budget. Director Florian Maria Georg Christian Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck (I copy-pasted it), shrunk to Florian Henckel von Donnersmack for the film credits, has attempted to sell cinema goers a pup. For once, it seems, they’re not buying.
Although you need to take a leave of absence to learn to pronounce his name, von Donnersmarck is in fact the celebrated director of the German film ‘Lives of Others’ which tells the tale of the fight for freedom in East Germany. And although this Oxford University philosophy graduate pulled in an Oscar for that one, our guess is that when nominations are announced for 2011 on January 25th, The Tourist is unlikely to feature heavily.
Von Donnersmarck does, however, unmistakably recognise the desire of Angelina Jolie to prove beyond doubt that she is the ultimate queen of the big screen and perhaps just because of the way she dominates the screen, I do not regret seeing The Tourist. Inspired by Audrey Hepburn and Sofia Loren, Jolie displays a skillfully woven mixture of both grand ladies of film.
A two-time Oscar winner Colleen Atwood, who in the past has worked on heavy-duty productions including Memoirs of a Geisha and Chicago, has outperformed herself with the dresses she made for Jolie. Be it a chic morning pepito or a gown for evening splendour, we are stunned each time we see the actress in another of the 12 dresses. The triangle of the costumes, Angelina Jolie and director’s infatuation with her beauty is the only thing that keeps this film going. Jolie has also used this film to work on her English accent proving that although she may forever re-enact the role of Laura Croft at least her accent has moved on from upper-class British pastiche.
Mr Depp’s work has fewer redeeming features and this extremely talented actor faces the danger of forever remaining Pirates of the Carribean’s Jack Sparrow with occasional visits to imaginary worlds of Tim Burton. He replaced the original Frank Tupelo cast Tom Cruise and the second choice Sam Worthington and either, given his performance here would have sparkled more in the role.
Steven Berkoff appears infrequently, as a cartoon villain ham-acting his way through scenes where we are expected to find him malevolent and evil and sardonically amusing in equal measure and Timothy Dalton is unconvincing as British intelligence’s top man, ensuring fair play in a dirty world.
In contrast, the, work of veteran Hollywood composer James Newton Howard is so impressive that this is no doubt one of his best to date. His feel for the Venetian ambience and the passionate orchestration of emotions, splendid interiors and mild Mediterranean colours is unfortunately not matched here by the efforts of the experienced cinematographer John Seale. Unlike his usual classy stills and intimate close-ups, this time it seems like he downloaded shots of Venice from YouTube and inserted them into the action.
Half the men on the planet are in love with Angelina Jolie and the director of The Tourist, it seems, is no exception. Jolie’s determination to turn every film in which she stars into a showcase of her skills has not only paid off, but made her, in this particular film, one of the most beautiful faces Venice has ever worn.
If you adore her, endure the film, otherwise, resort to Visconti’s Death in Venice for some beautiful stills of this filmic city.
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