Last week was a bonanza for crime film lovers. I’ve dug up six trailers for you from the UK, Argentina, Serbia and Columbia.
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED
Alice Creed is a thriller from England that has two ex-cons kidnapping their victim Alice in hopes of securing a huge ransom from her rich father. Twists and turns ensue and it looks like the two men get played off against each other.
22 BULLETS (L’IMMORTEL)
L’Immortel (22 Bullets) is a highly anticipated reunion of director Luc Besson and actor Jean Reno. The Professional (Leon) is a long-time favorite of genre lovers and it’s great to see them working together again in the crime / action film. This time around Besson stood in as producer while Richard Berry had a hand in adapting the script and directed the effort.
A retired hit-man (Reno) is attacked and left for dead with 22 bullets lodged in him. My guess is that claws his way back to life and enacts one shit-tonne of revenge.
HARRY BROWN (Red-Band Trailer)
Good ‘ole RAMA featured the red-band trailer for Daniel Barber’s HARRY BROWN. I saw Harry last year. The paces itself out well taking its’ time to build the story. A 76-year old Michael Caine unleashes a well-deserved hell on a gang in a run-down neighborhood in London. The film gets quite wet.
SERBIAN FILM
I started hearing about SERBIAN FILM directed by first timer Srdjan Spasojevic late last year. This is a ‘toned down’ trailer but still pretty over the top. The first trailer that I saw for the film crossed almost every line of acceptability. We’ll be hearing a lot more about this one later in the year. It’s just starting to hit the North American festival circuit.
SALVAGE
Here’s a debut entry from director Lawrence Gough entitled Salvage described as a brand new British horror film that redefines the genre with a strong female heroine and a topical plot that positions the terror right on our doorstep. Looks good.
BLOOD AND RAIN (LA SANGRE Y LA LLUVIA)
Thanks to Twitch for bringing Jorge Navas’ film to our attention. The film’s official website gives us a synopsis.
George and Angela, two loners and questioning the meaning of their lives meet on a rainy night on the dark and violent streets of Bogota. He, a young taxi driver, emotionally destroyed by the recent death of his brother at the hands of a group of criminals, who now wants revenge and she, a beautiful princess of the night, addicted to cocaine and the labyrinths of the city. In just six hours of love, the streets and their ghosts will join them and separate them in a vacuum, in the same way the rain, like tears, blurring and fading like traces of blood and pain on the cold asphalt.
CANO DORADO (THE GOLDEN GUN)
The synopsis from the official Cano Dorado site
This is the story of Panceta, a young laborer from one of the poorer suburbs in Greater Buenos Aires. He lives with his mother, a widow, who greatly misses her husband, as does Panceta his father. Panceta’s life is focused on his work: he’s taken over his father’s forge, as well as working at a pipe factory. But his ambitions to make money have made him turn to manufacturing home- made guns and selling them in the outlying districts. Inexperienced and unaware of the danger, he is challenged by the local mafia.
One night when delivering his guns he meets Clara, a young girl working at the local community hall. They fall in love and decide to run away, going off in a freeing boat trip along the river. A man in love becomes an easy prey for his enemies, especially for Tacom, a powerful local mafia boss.
What had begun as a game turns grey and ever darker – the consequences are tragic and tormenting.
Golden Gun, a marginal love story, with shady boundaries between good and evil.
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