Saturday, 22 February 2020

Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) (2001 Stewart Sugg & scr)

Only discovered this through Jim Clark's book (he edited it rather well). It wasn't ever released in the UK but had a successful showing at the Taormina film festival - we have the French DVD release.

The plot - middle-aged hit man Stellan Skarsgard wants to retire but the firm won't let him and mark him for assassination, whilst in a career change he nannies man-child Chris Penn.

Unsurprisingly Sugg didn't thereafter have much of a career, which is a shame as this is really good fun, and has a great cast, also including Paul Bettany, Sienna Guillory, Allan Corduner, Peter Vaughan and Martine McCutcheon.

Tony Pierce-Roberts shot it after the first cameraman was fired after two days, John Dankworth wrote the music.



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