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The Review - AT THE MOVIES with WILLIAM HALL
Published: 1 November 2007

A polite dinner is out of the question

INTERVIEW
Directed by Steve Buscemi
Certificate 15

NOW this is the celebrity interview of every journalist’s dreams. Telling it like it really should be told. Jaded TV political commentator Pierre (Steve Buscemi) finds himself demoted to taking America’s top soap star Katya (Sienna Miller) out for an in-depth chat, and he doesn’t like it one little bit.
When they meet up for the interview in a plush New York restaurant she’s an hour late, orders a raspberry martini and decides against the planned meal. To the intellectual veteran with his piercing gaze and rimless glasses, she’s an airhead. To her, he’s simply old enough to be her father. So now we’re into shades of Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe, remember?
But suddenly she finds her interrogator is putting the questions no one else dares to ask: “You’re more famous for who you sleep with than anything else, right?” He hasn’t seen any of her films, and doesn’t intend to. She gets her own back when he tries to pick up the bill. “I have an expense account,” he assures her. To which she responds: “I have a bank balance!”
The dialogue is reminiscent of those Hollywood Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn comedies.
The cutting edge is there, but Buscemi, who directs as well, can’t keep up the crackerjack pace and eventually tails off into the slow lane.
Pity – but in my book it’s still worth a visit.

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