Florian von Donnersmarck
Florian von Donnersmarck's definitely not like the police. Which is quite understandable for a director who was born in Cologne, has lived in close quarters with the enormity of the totalitarian East Germany, and that he directed his main movie, "The Lives of Others," on that particular system: the his obsession with control over the citizens and how the rogues in power abuse it for private purposes. So the most interesting aspect of "The Tourist" - and the only one where this Hollywood movie director of the German si può connettere labilmente all'altro - sta in una buona dose di antipatia per i poliziotti in genere e di ironia sulle loro pratiche di sorveglianza. Forzando un po', potremmo dire che quel controllo poliziesco che era tragedia ne “Le vite degli altri” si trasforma in commedia giallo-rosa in “The Tourist”. Qui dunque il concetto va oltre il contesto dello stato totalitario e si avvicina piuttosto, si parva licet componere magnis , a quella paura della polizia che attraversa tutta l'opera di Hitchcock.
Vedi l'odioso poliziotto carrierista e crudele interpretato da Paul Bettany, che nella Stasi della Germania Est ci sarebbe stato benissimo; ma anche il paterno e gentile commissario italiano Christian De Sica, that can not wait to re-sell the Johnny Depp gangster who seek him. See how the beautiful opening sequence of the French policemen who with great pomp technology hidden in their van guard Angelina Jolie in Paris do you rub nicely, and end up arresting a poor man's way. The only police officer to make a good impression is Timothy Dalton, who appears as deus ex machina just in time to avoid the two protagonists to a bad end.
Although available to all the possibilities offered by a complex story (and amiably silly ), "The Tourist" is a rather dull film. In truth no one can say that you're bored, its hour and forty passes without having to look at the clock every five minutes, thanks to good to very bad shape in the person of Steven Berkoff (the super-gangster who pursued Jolie and Depp in competition with the police). And after all, a speedboat chase along the canals of Venice does not ever throw away. Okay, it's a Venice - as well as topographically reinvented - brazenly travel, they all said, but what do you expect from a film called "The Tourist"?
On the other hand, the film remains subdued compared to his chances. Von Donnersmarck is unable to give it vitality, as it carries out a task with Teutonic heaviness. Although the script tends to fly low. For example: the true-false idyll between Jolie and Depp has a good dialogue on the assets (the "life lessons" of the first-second deserved to appear in a better film) but it is frigid. As another example, it is clear that the sleazy Paul Bettany is sexually attracted to Angelina and envious of the mysterious death of her lover, who gives chase, but this sadistic situation remains between the lines (what he would once, do not say the old Hitch, but any good director of the Hollywood of yesterday!).
Even if one is bored, however, will enjoy the same just watching Angelina Jolie or Johnny Depp, by choice, in all their beauty. I say beauty, because in this film does not offer much else. Depp, who does not pass through a great period, è irreparabilmente bietolone. Angelina Jolie oltre che bella è brava, ma condannata a una rigidità imprevedibile per la nostra miglior diva d'azione. Il regista e il suo direttore della fotografia John Seale inseriscono diverse inquadrature di pura esaltazione della sua bellezza, ma assai statiche. Così lei recita con gli occhi - al punto che nel film lascia l'impressione di due occhi che camminano.
I numi che sovrintendono a “The Tourist” sono Alfred Hitchcok, Stanley Donen (“Sciarada”), Richard Quine e via dicendo. Così, si potrebbe ipotizzare l'avvio di una nuova tendenza al thriller romantico, che instilla nel corpo dell' action una non celata nostalgia hitchcockiana - tendenza represented this year by this film as the best and underrated, "Innocent Lies" by James Mangold. And we can refer to it to get an idea of \u200b\u200bwhat "The Tourist" and could not be.
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