In this American remake of Fred Zinnemann's film, British actor Eddie Redmayne masterfully plays a relentless hitman with many faces. A series available on Prime Video.
Published on 21/12/2024 16:06
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We knew the excellent red-headed, freckled British actor, Eddie Redmayne. He gave voice in the film adaptation of the musical Les Miserables. He then sang every evening for six months, on Broadway, in another musical: Cabaret.
This time, it's another score that he interprets impeccably in an aesthetic and gripping thriller: Jackal (The Day of the Jackal). An intractable killer, an exceptional sniper who, like Lupine or Fantomas, has an extreme art of disguise.
At the start Jackalit is a British film by Fred Zinnemann from 1973. The story of a hitman who, after the failure of the Petit-Clamart attack, in August 1962, against General de Gaulle, prepares with great professionalism an attack sponsored by the OAS, the terrorist organization for the defense of the French presence in Algeria.
50 years later, Hollywood is putting the hero back in the saddle. This time, his target is a billionaire philanthropist who invented a system that allows complete transparency in financial flows. Obviously, this bothers a few powerful people. Eddie Redmayne is dazzling in this role of multi-faceted hitman. Charming, cuddly wife and young child, who live in a villa in sunny Cadiz, Spain. Fierce, cold and intractable when it comes to surgery.
Facing him, an MI6 agent in London, expert in firearms and ballistics, with a disordered emotional life, who despite her hierarchy tries to move forward in her investigation. The whole thing is filmed like a Michael Mann thriller, in colors that magnify London, Munich or Spain.
Jackala gripping, beautiful and rhythmic thriller in ten episodes, available on Prime Video.
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