Somebody once said that the reason football was undeniably the most popular of all sports around the world was basically that you could play it everywhere. All you needed was a ball.
Unfortunatelly this basic rule doesn't apply to cinema.
Picturing football is not as simple as it might look.
Despite cinema has made countless attempts to partray on the big screen the most universal of all sports, there hasn't arrived yet a film that captured the passion and emotion that this sport transmits to millions and millions of fans worlwide.
A true story set in 1967 about a small group of female machinists who go
on strike at a UK Ford factory in order to achieve the same, equal pay
as men in what has been deemed as the sexual revolution (in terms of
job rights).
However, this fight against discrimination is not as they though it was going to be as even their male partners in factories across all England move to the other side since they see how this movement might jeopardize the male-female status as they knew till then.
Jack (George Clooney) is a contract killer that ends up moving into a small town deep into L'Abruzzo, an outstandingly beautiful Italian county, in order to fulfil with one of his turbulent affaires.
When he meets by chance a local and beautiful prostitute, Ingrid (Irina Bjorklund), something radically changes his way of approaching to life and death.
However, this last job will come along with some hidden setbacks which won't make easy to runaway from his former life.
The American is another story about an enigmatic and attracting contract killer that falls for a beautiful prostitute.
Obviously I won't disclose the end of the film (I'm not such a party-pooper...), however I bet you all can get how the story will end. If not, you haven't watched enough TV lately. And I mean seriously!
Summing up, and with no doubts at all, the most noticeable of the movie is the landscape of such a breathtaking place.
Director: Anton Corbijn
Cast: George Clooney - Irina Bjorklund - Paolo Bonacelli
