The Limits of Control R
For every way in, there is another way out.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 17, 2009
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Focus Features
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Isaach De Bankolé, Tilda Swinton, John Hurt, Gael García Bernal & Bill Murray | |
Performer: | Youki Kudoh, Alex Descas, Jean-François Stévenin, Luis Tosar, Paz de la Huerta & Hiam Abbass | |
Directed by | Jim Jarmusch | |
Edited by | Jay Rabinowitz | |
Music by | Boris | |
Screenwriting by | Jim Jarmusch | |
Produced by | Stacey E. Smith & Gretchen McGowan | |
Director of Photography: | Christopher Doyle | |
Executive Production by | Jon Kilik |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
Limits becomes a study of what happens when you remove all the things people like about spy movies, things like clever plotting, suspense, sex appeal.
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Japan Times
This is a demanding film that will no doubt fuel the art-house naysayers, yet set against a vivid Spanish canvas Jarmusch's poetic pretensions become not only explicable but palatable as well.
Little White Lies
Jim Jarmusch's nonchalant and precise Limits of Control moves through real landscapes in Spain, city and nowhere, his two favorite places.
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n+1
Rating: 3/5 --
It's bold, confrontational cinema that will, as its author intended, have you questioning at every turn just what it is you expect from a modern movie, and more importantly, why.
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Times (UK)
[An] absorbing and visually mesmerizing new crime thriller....[It] may well be Jarmusch's most enigmatic film yet...
Los Angeles Times
3 stars out of 5 -- [H]ypnotic and gorgeous to look at....It's undeniably salient and confident filmmaking.
Empire
Rating: 2/5 --
If you need a working definition for bad Jarmusch, look no further than The Limits of Control, which functions more as a wilful act of self-pleasuring than worthwhile experiment.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Product Description:
In spite of the title, THE LIMITS OF CONTROL constantly reveals the controlling hand of its creator, the indie icon Jim Jarmusch. The film follows Jarmusch regular Isaach de Bankole as he ambles through various parts of Spain on an ambiguous criminal mission. Credited as the "Lone Man," de Bankole encounters a series of oddly disguised accomplices and absorbs their one-sided philosophical musings, all the while piecing together the nature of his assignment. This narrative sounds more compelling in summary than it is on screen, but if you are seeing a Jarmusch picture in hopes of a scintillating story, then you are as confused as the characters from his more memorable films. The sole disappointment of this film is that, despite the overwhelming strangeness of the action (or lack thereof), none of the characters display any confusion or uncertainty, as they assuredly assess the events and still find time to practice tai chi and pontificate about music, film, science, and painting. The film is rigorously structured: each encounter invokes a definitive theme that clicks firmly into place by the conclusion. The individual scenes are entirely enjoyable, as a white-blond Tilda Swinton discusses Welles and Hitchcock, and John Hurt rasps about the depiction of Spanish bohemians in art and literature. Despite Jarmusch’s domineering presence, it is the brilliant work of his collaborators, particularly cinematographer Christopher Doyle and editor Jay Rabinowitz, that shimmers in the memory of the viewer after the final shot. Doyle makes every line, curve, and diagonal in his frames vibrate with hints of radiant significance, and his ethereal images of the Almerian landscape often draw our attention from the artificial metaphysical dialogue. Jarmusch fans will be delighted by this perplexing metaphor of a film, which aims to symbolize and summarize the whole of existence through its myriad parts.
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