Almost ten and a half years ago, the English writer Christopher Reid He drew attention with his ‘Lunch Song’, a narrative poem about the lunch meeting of a man and a woman who fell in love one day, or rather fifteen years ago. There was a copy of this poetic connotation on television, without losing the poetry: a 2010 BBC medium-length film. Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson as heroes.
we do not know whether Janus MetzThe Danish director of ‘Armadillo’, ‘Borg McEnroe’ and ‘True Detective’ or ‘ZeroZeroZero’ saw this last track before directing ‘Past with an Appointment’ (Prime Video, Friday, the 8th), but do we know it? Ben Steinhauer He was inspired by Reid’s poetry to write the novel on which the movie is based. East ‘income‘espionage and tragic love Basically the ‘Lunch Song’ is just the muse that replaces the failed poet with a few CIA agents and a successful novelist in his place.
Also producer of the movie christmas pine (the last Captain Kirk in the ‘Star trek’ series, among thousands of things) and Thandwe Newton (which needs no introduction, although many will know her as Maeve from ‘Westworld’) is responsible for giving life and beauty to people. Henry Pelham and Celia Harrison are two spies and ex-lovers who meet up to catch up at a restaurant in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.. What can be an enjoyable conversation ends by focusing on: Jihadist hijacking of Royal Jordanian Flight 127ended with the death of everyone on board. Henry, from his boss Vic Wallinger (Laurence Fishburne) is on a mission to interrogate his former colleagues and find the mole who managed to leak classified information to the terrorists.
Secrets and Lies
As Henry and Celia investigate the case, they exhume their relationship, especially the circumstances that have turned him upside down. Every comeback is a blow to different assessments. “Finally it is A very simple story of two people working in a secret environment, in love but still keeping secrets from each other endlessly.“, Pine himself explains via video call. “So, this is the story of any marriage‘ he adds between the laughter.
“We had the opportunity to speak with a CIA veteran,” Newton adds. “We learned with him what it means to work for the agency and we had to hide a lot of emotion. We wanted to analyze how this would affect a person and their relationship”; fundamental question in Steinhaueractually.
It’s pretty hard to play characters who only tell half or a third of the truth. Pine says: “we worked at the same time in different plots with different degrees of accuracy. It can be really misleading.” Newton needed to learn something about containment: “Metz would insist that I use less, less. I guess I’m too emotional. Such a thing did not help to preserve the mystery to the end.” Pine again: “Metz knew what needed to be emphasized, what had to be conveyed. He had a scalpel job in directing and editing.”
Those paranoid seventies
‘Rendezvous with the Past’ is the first feature film from Barry Linen Pictures, a production company co-founded by Pine (his name is a sort of private joke, ‘Barry Lyndon’ and a pun on linen). The actor collaborated heavily with Metz to create a thriller that, while modern, harks back to the best examples of paranoid intrigue from half a century ago. “We had a great book with inspiring images for every scene,” he explains. ‘Spy out of the cold’, ‘Three days of the vulture’, ‘All the President’s Men’…”. Newton interrupts and adds: “‘Chinese Syndrome’! I had a big accident with Jane Fonda while making this movie. Any opportunity to think about the fund and the catalog fund is a good opportunity.”