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Masterful Movie

Great Film overall

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

This remarkable film directed by the talented Steve Buscemi, is something of a tour de force. It is essentially a two-hander starring himself and Sienna Miller, then aged 26. Pulling off a two-hander which lasts as long as a feature film takes a great deal of talent and ingenuity, and there are few occasions when anything like this has occurred successfully. I would say that this film largely succeeds, therefore, at the impossible. It keeps us watching two people for 84 minutes. Try doing that in real life, much less on the screen. I can't imagine how Buscemi ever raised the money to make this risky film. He must have called in all his chips. Anyone with two eyes in his head can see that he pulled it off on screen and got lots of plaudits, but I doubt whether it ever earned its costs back. Presumably he worked for nothing and Sienna took a low fee. But even then, there's a crew to pay. How did they do it? We'll never know. But it was a foolhardy enterprise well worth undertaking. At least they can all feel good about themselves, and those few of us who have seen the result think all the better of them for it. I never really thought of Steve Buscemi as a serious figure before I saw this, because he often plays goofy guys in films and he never came to the fore in my consciousness (what little consciousness I may have). He always seemed to be hanging around as a supporting player in things, but you know, I am more interested in actresses, aren't I? But that brings me to Sienna Miller. I used to meet her and her sister when they were children and they were very polite, interesting, and pleasant kids. It also seemed obvious to me that Sienna had something special about her. But who thinks a kid is going to become a movie star? And yet sometimes they do. That was in the days when I was friends with her exasperating father, a friendship which ended badly. (I never met her mother, as by then the girls had one of their stepmothers.) So angry was I with Ed Miller, for good reason, that for a long time I refused to watch any movies with his daughter in them. However, due to my fondness for Terence Rattigan, I went along to the Old Vic to see one of his plays and there was little Sienna, now a big smiling girl with a huge personality, dominating the stage with plenty of charm and talent, and I thought: 'I've had this girl figured all wrong. She may be the daughter of Ed Miller, but what the hell, she's not him, she's her, and she's really got it and I must not hold anything against her.' So I broke down and watched one of her movies, and this was the one. I rush to confess that she is a really impressive person, chock full of talent and oomph, and long may she take part in Interviews, and I hope she gets stacks of Oscars, which doubtless she will do sometime if she keeps on like this. But let's not forget she is also dynamite on the stage, and I would say even more so than on screen, and that is saying something.

In a movie such as this, with a clever premise of a former brilliant journalist being demoted to interviewing starlets there should be some TENSION.I kept waiting for it. For some genuine cat and mouse play. So I forgave a lot of atrocious scripting and lack of character development.I mean Steve calls Sienna the C word when their interview breaks down in a restaurant and she then immediately rescues him when he gets injured outside the restaurant and brings him back to her apartment? Puh-lease. And the worst artificial wound I've ever seen on film, starts out real big, pouring blood, and then a bag of frozen peas shrinks it to gnat-bite size in 5 minutes. Yeah.And then what should have been reasonable dialogue to keep audience engaged is flimsy and unbelievable. He gets access to her personal laptop and breaks into her files while she's on the phone? They fight over the TV remote? He gets to French kiss her? Oh right maybe that was the payoff for Steve the person.I did watch to the end. I almost expected wedding bells in true Hollow-wood style but no, I was left dangling and not caring one whit.Don't waste your breath or your $4.00 (bargain bin at the local).4 out of 10

I loved this: It had the electricity of that last sequence from Last Tango, and extended it for the duration of the film; the anarchy, the back and forth, the unbridled playfulness.It's a beautifully written, directed, acted, shot and edited theater piece. Check it out for the roller coaster theatrical energy and professionalism; and because of the production values and attention to the demands of the film medium, it works just fine as a movie as well (thankfully!).And, I should add; it was nice to see Buscemi playing something straight for a change. He so often gets cast in "concept" pieces that straightjacket him. It's odd: "Interview" is a concept piece, too: Except that Buscemi is allowed to breathe here, and that's so nice to see. It's nice to be reminded every now and then that he can hold his own in this regard; that he can play a human being.And he really can.

This film is about a political journalist's unconventional interview an actress who is known for who she sleeps with rather than her work.I was completely captivated by the film. "Interview" is quick to get down to business, and within 10 minutes of the film, all the character and plot ground work is already laid down. I was the most impressed by the script of the film, despite only 2 people being in the film, it never felt boring. The tension and power struggle between the two is portrayed very well. Katya is an unstable person, highly self centred and has no respect for others. She is ambivalent to most issues, such as asking Pierre to leave and then to manipulate him to stay a few seconds later. She is emotionally labile, switching from like to hate within seconds, manipulative and thinks dichotomously. Katya provokes so much counter-transference in me, I kept thinking "How could she do that". Together with the substance abuse and her chronic fear of emptiness, she is truly disturbed. Whoever wrote the script must have worked with a psychiatrist, as Katja's behaviour and speech is quite suggestive of borderline personality disorder.Sienna Miller is really good in her portrayal of Katya. At first I thought she was the laughing stock of the film as she was deemed to be "playing herself", an actress who is known by reputation rather than her work. Through her portrayal of Katja, I am impressed that she used this exact stereotype to overturn what people thinks of her.I am genuinely impressed by this film. It is a tight 80 minutes of dysfunctional interaction.