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(2005) Film Review |
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| CREDITS |
Directed
by Sydney Pollack
Story
by Martin Stellman and Brian Ward
Screenplay by Charles Randolph and Scott Frank
and Steven Zaillian
Cast
(in credits order)
Nicole Kidman .... Silvia Broome
Sean Penn .... Tobin Keller
Catherine Keener .... Dot Woods
Jesper Christensen .... Nils Lud
Yvan Attal .... Philippe
Earl Cameron .... Zuwanie
George Harris .... Kuman-Kuman
Michael Wright .... Marcus
Clyde Kusatsu .... Police Chief Lee Wu
Eric Keenleyside .... Rory Robb
Hugo Speer .... Simon Broome
Maz Jobrani .... Mo
Yusuf Gatewood .... Doug
Curtiss Cook .... Ajene Xola
Byron Utley .... Jean Gamba
Robert Clohessy .... FBI Agent King
Terry Serpico .... FBI Agent Lewis
David Wolos-Fonteno .... Phillip Ostroff
John Knox .... Fred Jameson
David Zayas .... Charlie Russell
Lynne Deragon .... American Ambassador Davis
Christopher Evan Welch .... Jonathan Williams
Adrian Martinez .... Roland
Tsai Chin .... Luan
Francine Roussel .... Isobel
Enid Graham .... Jenny
Lou Ferguson .... Matoban Ambassador
Vladimir Bibic .... G.A. President
Patrick Ssenjovu .... Jad Jamal
Michael Patrick McGrath .... Jonathan Ferris
Nelson Landrieu .... Spanish Speaking Interpreter
Leonid Citer .... Russian Interpreter
Satish Joshi .... Secretary General
Sophie Traub .... Young Silvia
Monty Ashton-Lewis .... Young Simon
Pat Kiernan .... Himself
Produced
by
Tim Bevan .... producer
G. Mac Brown .... executive producer
Liza Chasin .... co-producer
Eric Fellner .... producer
Debra Hayward .... co-producer
Anthony Minghella .... executive producer
Kevin Misher .... producer
Sydney Pollack .... executive producer
Michael E. Steele .... producer: African unit
Original
Music by James Newton Howard
Cinematography by Darius Khondji
Film Editing by William Steinkamp
MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for violence, some sexual
content and brief strong language.
For rating reasons, go to FILMRATINGS.COM,
and MPAA.ORG.
Parents, please refer to PARENTALGUIDE.ORG
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| SYNOPSIS
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 From
Academy Award winner SYDNEY POLLACK, the director behind some of the
most compelling and provocative thrillers of the last two decades
(Three Days of the Condor, Absence of Malice, The Firm), comes a fresh
take on contemporary suspense: an intricate, knife’s-edge drama
that unfolds against our 21st Century world of international terror
and inside the United Nations’ hidden corridors of power. Academy
Award winners NICOLE KIDMAN and SEAN PENN star in The Interpreter,
the story of two opposite people who unexpectedly collide within a
maze of mounting paranoia, personal secrets and explosive global events.
Shot on location in Manhattan and Southern Africa,
The Interpreter is the first motion picture in history to receive
inside access to the United Nations’ headquarters (which is
officially international territory) in New York.
The escalating events begin when African-born U.N.
translator Silvia Broome (Kidman) alleges that she has overheard
a death threat against an African head of state, spoken in a rare
dialect few people other than Silvia can understand. With the words
“The Teacher will never leave this room alive,” in an
instant, Silvia’s life is turned upside down as she becomes
a hunted target of the killers. Placed under the protection of federal
agent Tobin Keller (Penn), Silvia’s world only grows more
nightmarish. As Keller digs deeper into his eyewitness’ past
and her secretive world of global connections, the more suspicious
he becomes that she herself might be involved in the conspiracy.
With every step of the way, he finds more reasons to mistrust her.
Is Sylvia a victim? A suspect? Or something else
entirely? And can Tobin, coping with his own personal heartache,
keep her safe? Though they must depend on one another, Silvia and
Tobin couldn’t be more different. Silvia’s strengths
are words, diplomacy and the subtleties of meaning, while Tobin
is all about instinct, action and reading into the most primal human
behaviors. Now, as the danger of a major assassination on U.S. soil
grows and Silvia’s life hangs in the balance, Silvia and Tobin
play out a gripping dance of evasion and revelation that keeps them
both guessing as they race to stop a terrifying international crisis
before it’s too late.
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 Imagine
your parent, sibling, child, or spouse has been killed. It is a
year later and the person responsible for his or her death has
been bound and sent into the middle of lake to drown. If nothing
is done, he will die. If you choose to swim out and save him, he
will live. What will you do?
 For United Nations interpreter Silvia Broome, this situation is not something
she has to imagine; rather, the practice is custom in the African country where
she grew up. More than just a tradition from Silvia’s past, however, this
very dilemma becomes central to the movie The Interpreter.
 The story begins when Silvia overhears an assassination threat against a foreign
president scheduled to speak at the UN. Instead of just a threat against a well-known
dignitary, however, the threat is against a dignitary accused of genocide. Even
more than just a tragedy Silvia has heard about on the news, the deaths that
surround President Zuwanie’s name are her countrymen, her neighbors, and
her family.
Review
continued on Elisabeth's blog |
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 The Interpreter is that
rare film that is not afraid to tackle adult topics in an adult manner.
The fact that it does so within the confines of a highly commercial
political-thriller formula makes its achievement even more amazing
and delightful.
On the surface, the film is about a United Nations interpreter, Silvia Broome,
who overhears a plot to kill an African dictator. Her accidental eavesdropping
does not go unnoticed, and soon her life is threatened as well.
Enter Tobin Keller, the grief-stricken secret service agent assigned to protect
her. (His estranged wife was just killed in a car accident.) As it turns out,
Broome is bound up with grief as well, having lost most of her family to a
terrorist bomb years earlier. So while the two don’t exactly hit it off
at first, their sorrow soon creates a silent bond.
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