Tuesday 24 January 2017

Stormy Monday (1988 Mike Figgis & scr)

Modern film noir, transposed to Newcastle, featuring a Polish free form Jazz band! And why not? (Band is in fact resolutely English in cast names.)

Melanie Griffith is femme fatale, Sean Bean the underdog, Sting good as nightclub manager, Tommy Lee Jones, Alison Steadman.

Early Roger Deakins is suitably shot in pools of darkness, with noiry night scenes from car but with a touch of eighties neon gloss.




Reviewed 19th February 1994 as 'Moody successful blend of romantic thriller with bang powder. Tsh and tish, Mr Robinson'.

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