Wednesday, May 02, 2007
FREARSUSPENSE
Today's Stephen Frears' film was
Frears is an expert at the underclasses.
Here, a group of illegal immigrants in London get involved in a illegal organ donor racket—kidneys.
But that is hardly the story.
What is mostly at stake here is keeping the very thin ground all these people walk on from breaking and letting them drop into the abyss of deportation.
All of them have 'legal' jobs in service; cleaning rooms, valeting cars, gypsy cabbing and whoring.
No one questions this 'service' as no one legal wants the work. Well I suppose there are legal whores. But not the kind who would rather be doing something else.
The plot here is as tight as a drum and it keeps beating. It is not easy to see a way out of the dilemmas presented. Very tense.
And, ultimately, very satisfying.
I may be wrong but I think that Frears never denies you a clever and quite happy ending.
You just won't see it coming.
Again, a mostly unknown cast except for Audrey Tatou who we have seen in mosty French cinema. All expert performances.
This is another 5 out of Netflix5.
