STRINGER,BURT REYNOLDS FILM,ENDING.

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Directed by KLAUS BIEDERMANN and starring ELIE SEMOUN, BURT REYNOLDS and EDIE FALCO. This is quite an interesting film and, along with 1999's Pups, one of the best movies Burt Reynolds made in his post-Boogie Nights career period. It is a shame Stringer never got a United States release, because I found it a surprisingly gritty, dark and atmospheric independent little film that reminded me a lot of David Cronenberg's early work. Had the producers worked harder back in 1999, the time the film was being distributed, it could end up being a Festival favorite and making quite an impression, specially for the critics that tend to look away from Burt Reynolds, an obviously talented actor who happens to pick up bad scripts. Fortunately, that's not the case with Stringer, a fine, elegant look into human's darkness and our gradual descent into madness, as a society. With a pony tail and his usual cynicism, Burt plays Wolko, a sleazy TV producer who manipulates an innocent French stringer into capturing the most horrifying, brutal images he can get, even if these images cost him his sanity. His character is quite similar to his Jack Horner in Boogie Nights in terms of the laid-back, easy-going, ironic attitude that only Burt knows how to perform, with the important difference that Boogie Nights' Jack Horner actually cared for Mark Wahlberg's character and both went on to build a father-son relationship through the course of the picture, and Stringer's Wolko is the devil itself disguised as a human being: he couldn't care less for Elie Semoun's character. He wants disgrace on screen, at any cost. The cinematography is gorgeous (New York never seemed so dark, strange and hostile), capturing the ugly part of life in the big city, the performances are over all great, director Klaus Biedermann has an eye for interesting imagery, and the final product is a depressing, true-to-life portrayal of the direction humanity is going to, in this film that packs a punch in the guts, with scenes that will haunt you forever, like an entertained Burt Reynolds laughing and screaming to Semoun's character to shot a store being consumed by flames and the agony of an innocent family, or the scene in which a mentally challenged girl sings "Amazing Grace" at the top of a building, and as the firemen try to get closer to help her, she jumps to her death.

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Uploaded: September 5th, 2008 @ 4:12 am
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