Tarantino meets The Coen Brothers
Hugely underrated film this one. Sandwiched between the sublime beginning and the hauntingly beautiful end is the rich dark centre of this great film noir, as good as anything ever attempted by the great Jacques Tourneur (Thieves Highway, Build My Gallows High, Night of the Demon). Add to that Lena Olin's Femme Fatale and Oldman's spot-on performance of low-life and you've the recipe for a film that in my opinion at least, stands as one of the great film noir's of the past 40 years.
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