The Limits of Control (2009)

Recommended

USA/Japan

Feature Film

Writer/Director: Jim Jarmusch

Cinematographer: Christopher Doyle

Composer: Boris

Cast: Isaach De Bankolé, Alex Descas, Jean-François Stévenin, Óscar Jaenada, Luis Tosar, Paz de la Huerta, Tilda Swinton, Youki Kudoh, John Hurt, Gael García Bernal, Hiam Abbass, Bill Murray, Héctor Colomé

Jarmusch’s hypnotic, enigmatic film – his first critical flop – which lacks the gentle, laconic humour of his best work, follows the progress of a mysterious hitman, depicting a number of strange encounters that he has (in between visits to a café and an art gallery) with numerous incongruously dressed, curiously artistic secret agent types. Iain.Stott