Tony Scott’s directorial debut is not what I thought it was going to be at all. It’s so different from everything else he did. The pacing was slow and ultimately the plot didn’t grasp me. The standouts of the film is the hair, wardrobe, and production design. I recently dove into Catherine Deneuve’s films having seen THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBORG right before the COVID-19 outbreak. She is really great and I need to see more of her stuff. I’m also always a huge fan of anything with Susan Sarandon especially her early stuff. I’ve never thought of her as sexy before, but damn if she isn’t sexy in this. Hell everyone in this is sexy. I was upset that Bowie didn’t have more to do here nor did he get to act particularly Bowie, and I guess that’s why I prefer the second half of the film to the first half. It’s interesting to see her in Tony Scott’s film before she was in Ridley’s THELMA AND LOUISE.
