Director Michael Radford made a surprising about-face from his international hit Il Postino to this grungy British romantic crime thriller. Asia Argento is the title character, a street criminal whose specialty is breaking and entering: “I can get into anywhere.” Jared Harris is a bookish, shy schoolteacher with a yen for jazz who becomes smitten with Argento’s sexy wildcat. Argento brings a vitality to the supercharged street thief trying to break with her past, but stick-in-the-mud Harris is restrained to a fault. Rupert Everett costars as a smart-mouthed, sleepy-eyed ne’er-do-well whose drug habit puts him deep in debt, and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers is Argento’s volatile partner, a jittery young punk on a hair trigger. Radford has more fun with the villains than his ostensible hero; the film bubbles when they’re on screen and the movie’s single heist scene gives the plot a short, sharp, energized shot in the arm. The conclusion reverberates with echoes of Straw Dogs, as remade by a kinder, gentler filmmaker.
This is actually a quite wonderful little film. Asia Argento is radiant as a thief who chances to meet (and enchant) a nerdish, but goodhearted, teacher who completely falls head over heels in love with her (who wouldn’t?). In an effort to change lifestyles and settle down, she can’t quite get rid of her past and this puts a strain on her newfound boyfriend and her new existence.
Rumour has it that a large portion was left on the cutting room floor and it took the film three years to get released, but it doesn’t. Highly recommended.
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