10 April 2012
This slick, fitfully effervescent, pre-9/11 thriller aims to inject some cross-cultural poetry into the world of political espionage.
Juliette Binoche and John Turturro - as two warring agents trying to track down an elusive "informer" called Elliot - resist the urge to compete with their zany lines and are lovely to watch (Binoche, cast against type as a lech, is especially good).
Still, A Few Days is haunted by superior "quest"epics such as The Third Man and Apocalypse Now.
When the gravelly-voiced man of mystery finally shows up, we realise what a goose chase this has been; a few hours in September, entertainingly wasted.
A Few Days In September (Quelques Jours En Septembre)
Cert: 15
