Ian Mc Shane. Impeccable Actor. Unbelievable, the man is 81. And he looks at least 20 years younger in American Star, an existential hitman thriller drama about aging and solitude. And nostalgia. And loyalty, maybe most of all.
Takes a movie for me to find about about the real crash of the luxury ocean liner, American Star (SS America), on Fuerteventura, Canary Islands. And it's metaphor on top of the title of the film.
The director. Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego I know from El Rey de la Montana (2007), film that I liked and was about to present when we did he little experiment called Bohemian Mondays/ aldmovielight at The Light cinema (then), in 2010, in Rahova, Bucharest. I think I translated the whole film, luckily there were very few lines of dialogue on that one.
Anyway, Gallego went on to the US to do Apollo 18 (a horror spoof/mockumentary), Open Grave and The Hollow Point. And now this, American Star, which I really liked. Mostly because McShane is mesmerizing. And the island. And it has a slow pace, a dreamlike quality. Arthouse European thriller. Would've loved to see it in a cinema.
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