Veronica Guerin (2003)
Country: US/GB/EIRE
Technical: Technicolor/scope 98m
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciarán Hinds, Brenda Fricker
Synopsis:
In the months leading up to her murder in 1996 the Dublin journalist denounces the drug trade and seeks to expose the organised crime that lies behind it.
Review:
The least comfortable aspects of this film are the presence of well-known actors in real-life parts and the guiding hand of gloss-merchant Schumacher, who reins in his more baroque excesses but still contrives to make a Taxi Driver-like overhead shot out of the crime scene, while playing no less than two Irish ballads, and includes an horrendous family scene in which Blanchett shows her irrepressibility by getting angry hubby and sleepy kid to dance with her in the middle of the night. Blanchett does well enough, but overdoes the trademark twinkle (this woman takes no male condescension and charms till she gets what she wants); the high point is Hinds's performance as a sleazy smalltime informer.
Country: US/GB/EIRE
Technical: Technicolor/scope 98m
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciarán Hinds, Brenda Fricker
Synopsis:
In the months leading up to her murder in 1996 the Dublin journalist denounces the drug trade and seeks to expose the organised crime that lies behind it.
Review:
The least comfortable aspects of this film are the presence of well-known actors in real-life parts and the guiding hand of gloss-merchant Schumacher, who reins in his more baroque excesses but still contrives to make a Taxi Driver-like overhead shot out of the crime scene, while playing no less than two Irish ballads, and includes an horrendous family scene in which Blanchett shows her irrepressibility by getting angry hubby and sleepy kid to dance with her in the middle of the night. Blanchett does well enough, but overdoes the trademark twinkle (this woman takes no male condescension and charms till she gets what she wants); the high point is Hinds's performance as a sleazy smalltime informer.
Country: US/GB/EIRE
Technical: Technicolor/scope 98m
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciarán Hinds, Brenda Fricker
Synopsis:
In the months leading up to her murder in 1996 the Dublin journalist denounces the drug trade and seeks to expose the organised crime that lies behind it.
Review:
The least comfortable aspects of this film are the presence of well-known actors in real-life parts and the guiding hand of gloss-merchant Schumacher, who reins in his more baroque excesses but still contrives to make a Taxi Driver-like overhead shot out of the crime scene, while playing no less than two Irish ballads, and includes an horrendous family scene in which Blanchett shows her irrepressibility by getting angry hubby and sleepy kid to dance with her in the middle of the night. Blanchett does well enough, but overdoes the trademark twinkle (this woman takes no male condescension and charms till she gets what she wants); the high point is Hinds's performance as a sleazy smalltime informer.