Interview (2007) Sienna Miller, Steve Buscemi, Michael Buscemi.
Buscemi portrays a washed-out political journalist who is assigned by his editor to interview a celebrity actress (Miller) who is more well-known for her horror flicks, her steamy love-life, and her soap opera character than her acting.
This movie is a remake of the original in 2003 by Theo Van Gogh. Theo Van Gogh wanted to remake three of his films in America but due to his untimely murder, he didn’t. There are a few nods to him in the movie: a moving van named “Van Gogh Movers” and Miller’s character, Katya, mentions that her father is from Holland.
Steve Buscemi is fine as a director but the story itself is less than compelling. Both characters are extremely unsympathetic and the plot takes liberties. The “interview” between self-absorbed Katya and bitter Pierre starts in a Soho restaurant. After Pierre insults the actress by calling her “Cuntya”, are we suppose to believe that Katya will then take pity on the poor, misunderstood journo by inviting him up to her lofty loft after he sustains a huge bump on his head from his cab suddenly stopping because the cab driver is mesmerized by Katya’s beauty and celebrity???
Oh, come…on. The cat-and-mouse talky interview between them continues in Katya’s loft but in a short time, it grows wearisome and boring. Not only that, the things they “confess” to each other just makes the audience feel manipulated and trashed. It was an interesting concept but….no dice. Skip it.
