Flawless (2007)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Flawless - an impeccable crime |
| Original title | Flawless |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Michael Radford |
| script | Edward Anderson |
| production |
Michael A. Pierce , Mark Williams |
| music | Stephen Warbeck |
| camera | Richard Greatrex |
| cut | Peter Boyle |
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Flawless is a 2007 British crime film . Directed by Michael Radford and written by Edward Anderson . The title of the film plays with the meaning of the English word flawless , which means "flawless" or "flawless" at the same time, but also "flawless" when it comes to diamonds.
action
Laura Quinn, a middle-aged woman, gives an interview to a journalist in which she is asked to report on her professional experience as one of the first women in senior management. A flashback to the beginning of 1960 shows the events at the time when Quinn was the department head of the London Diamonds Corporation (Lon Di):
The widower Hobbs, employed by the company as a caretaker and cleaner, is about to retire in 1960. He persuades Quinn - who was one of the few female executives of that time who was passed over several times in the past for upcoming promotions - to steal a small amount of diamonds in a thermos, which nobody would notice anyway.
Quinn, who learns from Hobbs that she will soon be dismissed under a pretext, which actually turns out to be correct, takes a risky operation to find the secret number for the Lon Di safe, in which, in addition to a few high-quality diamonds, two tons of rough diamonds for each Daily business are kept. Together they can use the surveillance cameras that have just been installed for the first time, the system of which has a weak point in that they do not display the corridor to the safe on the surveillance screens for a period of one minute. Hobbs then manages to break into the vault on one of the following nights. When it was opened the next morning, all the diamonds were gone. The Diamonds Corporation turns on their insurance, which commissioned its own investigator Finch with the investigation of the case. Shortly thereafter, the company headquarters received a claim for 100 million pounds for the return of the diamonds.
Quinn is becoming increasingly nervous, assuming that they will be found out. Because of this behavior, they are actually targeted by Finch.
Meanwhile, Lon Di is putting pressure on its insurance company to pay the ransom, and news of the theft is leaked to the press. The head of the company, Milton Kendrick Ashtoncroft, suffers a heart attack and dies. The president of Lon Di's insurance company, Sinclair, believes he is ruined and shoots himself.
When Quinn drops one of her earrings in the drain of a sink on the Lon Di, she unscrews the siphon to recover it. She got the idea that Hobbs could have got rid of the diamonds this way. She then climbs into a sewer at night, where she suspects the diamonds, and meets Hobbs there. He tells her that his health insurance company delayed the treatment of his cancerous wife for so long that the treatment was no longer successful. Sinclair was also the head of this health insurance, which is why Hobbs blames him for the death of his wife.
Hobbs shows her the diamonds that he piped from one of the wash basins into the sewer and disappears into one of the canals. Quinn reports the find, and Lon Di then tells the press that there has never been such a theft. A participation in the coup could have been indirectly proven to Laura Quinn, but the investigator waives it, also because he has a weakness for her. When Quinn is passed over again for the next upcoming promotion, she leaves Lon Di.
At the end of the film, she hands over her memoirs to the journalist and says that some time after the diamond theft, she received a message from a bank that the 100 million pounds had been deposited in a Swiss numbered account for her. Then she used the time up to now to donate these assets to various organizations and people. She kept a single, large diamond that had fallen to the ground in the sewer and that she had pocketed.
backgrounds
Filming took place in London , France and Luxembourg ; production costs amounted to an estimated 20 million US dollars . The world premiere was on February 11, 2007 on the European Film Market . On September 29, 2007 the film was shown at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián . On March 28, 2008, it began widespread release in United States cinemas.
Reviews
Jonathan Holland wrote in Variety magazine on October 3, 2007 that the film was "a polished and shiny exercise in nostalgia of the 60s". It is visually appealing like a tailored suit from Savile Row . Caine plays "perfectly" himself, but despite his hard work, the impression of the artificiality of the relationship between the character he embodies and Quinn remains. The dialogues occasionally seemed "spot on".
Web links
- Flawless in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Flawless at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Film review by Jonathan Holland ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 12, 2008
- ^ Locations for Flawless , accessed March 12, 2008
- ↑ Flawless box office results , accessed March 12, 2008
- ↑ Flawless premiere dates , accessed March 12, 2008
