Review of The Limits of Control (2009) by Freda W — 12 Sep 2009
Jim Jarmusch edges about as close as he?ll come to a thriller with the enigmatic The Limits of Control; a thriller only in that it tracks an anonymous, jet-setting hitman (Isaach De Bankolé) ? those seeking Bourne-borrowing book-punching: prepare to be perplexed.
Simulacra-stuffed and deliberately bewildering, Limits sees De Bankolé?s taciturn assassin in Spain on a clandestine assignment collecting matchboxed instructions from a string of informants (a strikingly alabaster Tilda Swinton and habitually nude Paz de la Huerta among them) as he inches his way ? slowly, silently, surely ? towards.
.. well, we don?t know what. At two hours long and reportedly shot from a screenplay of just twenty-five pages, this is languorous to a point many will no doubt find insufferable, but, floating on a seriously sexy post-rock soundtrack, The Limits of Control hints at a wellspring of substance to be dechipered beneath its remote and exquisitely-lensed surface that will see it latch long to the memory.
This review of The Limits of Control (2009) was written by Freda W on 12 Sep 2009.
The Limits of Control has generally received mixed reviews.
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