The Two Faces of January (2014 Hossein Amini & scr)

It's a well written screenplay, from Patricia Highsmith novel. Like Ripley it suffers from the too early departure of the most likeable character, this time the underrated and fabulous Kirsten Dunst. Also I'm not sure it has the best ending.

Still, handsomely mounted production, set in Greece in 1962, is good and cinematic (quite Hitchcocky). Oscar Isaac and Viggo Mortensen are fine. Music is by Alberto Iglesias, Marcel Zyskind on camera. Nicolas Chaudeurge and Jon Harris editing. Has its own Zippo foley artist.
It was Iranian-born Amini's first feature - he also wrote Drive, Shanghai and The Wings of the Dove.

Features the old buses that Q so dearly loves.