Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The
2004, Anderson, US
1st time; big screen
After his best friend is killed by a Jaguar Shark, a filmmaker takes his crew on a mission to hunt it down and exact revenge.
A highly original, inventive and witty comedy of a man in mid-life crisis mode, coming to terms with and having to accept that he isn't who he thought he was. The humour is of an eccentric kind, but it gradually sucks you into its own little world, and builds momentum as it goes.

Brother
2000, Kitano, US/GB/Jap
1st time
A vicious Yakuza gangster arrives in America to live with his younger brother, and causes chaos.
Kitano brings his deadpan action and dry humour to America and takes on the theatrics of Hollywood; an interesting, violent fantasy of his own persona.

Mick


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