REVIEW: Eddie Cockrell's genre-bending 'Sexy Beast', 'Sug' with a strong performance [EDITOR'S NOTE: Eddie Cockrell reviewed "Sexy Beast" during the 2000 Toronto Film Festival. The film is currently in limited release.] Set on a sun-drenched hillside on Spain's Costa del Sol, retired Cockney gangster Gary "Gal" Dove (Ray Winstone) enjoys the quiet.
At once visually dazzling and defiantly humorous (set to the Stranglers' 1977 song "Peaches"), this early excerpt from Jonathan Glaser's "Sexy Beast" sets the stage for a love-it-or-hate-it genre exercise, featuring two stunning performances: a prolific but often self-consciously self-conscious directorial sensibility ("neon noir" as Glaser calls it) and a decidedly unconventional take on familiar British crime film conventions. film. A separate piece was published under the title "REVIEW: Smug's genre-bending 'Sexy Beast' with a strong performance."
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