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Vincent Gallo, Now with More Pants: Essential Killing Trailer

By Cindy Davis | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (9)

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Or should I say, Now with Less Dick? Either way, the Essential Killing trailer looks a heck of a lot better than anything else Vincent Gallo has ever done—and so it must be, as his completely wordless performance as a suspected terrorist won the Best Actor award at the 2010 Venice Film Festival. Writer/Director Jerzy Skolimowski’s (Four Nights with Anna) breathless tale of a man on the lam also won the Special Jury Prize after Quentin Tarantino (Jury President) asked for the Festival’s rules to be broken so that two major awards could be given to one film; Essential Killing went on to win many international awards. But, what can be more powerful than awards is a trailer’s ability to get people interested in seeing a film and this clip, with its gorgeous cinematography and palpable tension does the job well.

Gallo’s Mohammed manages to escape when, while being transported from his homeland desert to an undisclosed location in Europe, his captors’ transport vehicle crashes. He is forced to go on the run in completely foreign and treacherous territory (beautifully captured by cinematographer Adam Sikora). Skolimowski’s script is said to effectively keep up the suspense until the very end and it is purposely never made clear whether Mohammed is in fact a terrorist or not.

Essential Killing also stars Emmanuelle Seigner (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, La Vie en Rose and will be distributed by Tribeca Film this spring.









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Comments

Buffalo '66 is one of my favorite movies of all time, so yeah, I'll be seeing this. I find him completely mesmerizing no matter what shitty script he's given (Stranded, Hide and Seek).

Posted by: Mel C. at March 17, 2011 5:19 PM

I love the idea of a scriptless lead, and confess I haven't don't even know if any other movie without dialogue exist.... want to see this for sure.

Posted by: JuiceinLA at March 17, 2011 5:52 PM

So it's a movie about an escaped terrorist on the lam or it's a movie about an innocent man accused of being a terrorist on the lam? Someone please enlighten me.

Posted by: D at March 17, 2011 5:57 PM

"So it's a movie about an escaped terrorist on the lam or it's a movie about an innocent man accused of being a terrorist on the lam?"

Exactly....

...it could be either one and can be interpreted either way.

An older quote from the director, "As a poet my mind is trained along the path of poetic associations — I’m not afraid to wander away from direct narrative — I feel safe with a story that tempts you to believe or disbelieve."

Posted by: anonymous at March 17, 2011 6:40 PM

You sure they gave him the award for acting? You sure they didn't give him the award for just shutting the fuck up for 90 minutes?

Posted by: John W at March 17, 2011 6:42 PM

Better than Buffalo '66?

I think this can get added to the to-do list I write in the air with my finger in the mornings.

Check

Posted by: nix at March 17, 2011 7:16 PM

So it sounds like an update of "Valhalla Rising"

Posted by: Diablo at March 17, 2011 7:49 PM

This is a terrible movie. Ok, it's not that bad, there are some good stuff but the retarded bizarre hungry porn parts near the end make this movie stupid and wrong.

Posted by: zito at March 17, 2011 11:02 PM

I liked "the retarded bizarre hungry porn parts near the end" and thought it made sense showing his further regression into animalism. But that's me. YMMV whatever... I saw it in a theater and some people walked out after that scene. Usually a sign something is effective and hits a nerve IMO.

Better than Buffalo '66? - totally different...

Posted by: anonymous at March 18, 2011 4:04 AM