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[FILM REVIEW] MICHAEL CLAYTON
10.16.07
MICHAEL CLAYTON
Directed by Tony Gilroy
Starring George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack, and Tom Wilkinson
Review by Seth Rogovoy, editor-in-chief and critic-at-large, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine.
MICHAEL CLAYTON is a terrific paranoid thriller in the vein of such great 1970s films as THE PARALLAX VIEW and THE CONVERSATION, updated for the 21st century. Every character in the film -- which pits a megacorporate agricultural corporation (think Monsanto) against a top New York law firm -- is drenched in ethical corruption, with George Clooney at the center as the law firm's "fixer." Gilroy does a great job of establishing the dark mood (with terrific lighting, muted music and sound, and chilling editing and camera work), filling in the back story of Clooney's troubled extracurricular life.
Pollack and Wilkinson are pitch-perfect in their roles as CEO and top litigator, respectively, but it's Tilda Swinton who nearly walks away with the film in an Oscar-level performance as the corporate counsel who will stop at nothing to save her company from a class-action lawsuit and the bad publicity that could destroy it.
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