Based on the 2003 film by Dutch director Theo Van Gogh who was murdered by a Muslim extremist in 2004, Steve Buscemi s fourth film as director is another in the endless string of remakes that have been pumped into our cinemas during the recent years. This however, unlike almost everything else, it’s worth 80 minutes of your time.

It sa curve between two Buscemi as Pierre, a journalist whose career is on the slide and Miller as Katya, a beautiful and successful actress, to her dismay, is sent to interview. It begins with Pierre and Katya and feel each other over a drink, but really begins to get interesting once again Katya s apartment and the mind games really begin.

Sienna Miller struck me as being brilliant as Edie Sedgwick in Factory Girl, and her equally well here. Katya s mood changes with the wind and the gear changes could easily have been unpleasant, but Miller does work and makes the character attractive, if not particularly like someone sd loading. Buscemi is also superb dynamic between the two works very well with each seemed to manipulate the other at various points in the film.

The problem is that after a while Katya’s apartment s in the film settles into a rhythm that soon becomes a routine. Pierre asks a question. Katya gets upset.

Pierre will leave. Katya manipulates him to stay and so on.

The other big issue is that the final revelation that hangs in easy to guess up to half an hour early. The interview must have been great, is not it, but the results are strong enough to feel that their defects smaller than perhaps they are.

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