Ben Kingsley's best ever screen acting performance. It enters the Realm's top 20 movie list. But who has heard of it? Last night I watched for the first time this 2003 movie with the above singularly uninspiring name. A debut by director Vadim Perelman. It is an unheralded masterpiece of Shakespearean stature . Ben Kingsley's performance as an immigrant refugee to the US from post-Shah Iran is as fine a screen acting performance as I've ever seen by anyone, anytime. And Jennifer Connelly's nuanced and edgy rendition of her flawed character was revelatory. I have since briefly Googled , Wikipeed and Amazoned it, discovering it is based on a book by an Andre Dubus III. The Amazon book reviews are mixed. Surprisingly the brief reviews of the movie I've seen also seem mixed. Some even suggest this movie lacks believability . They must live in some cossetted urban Westernised material uberworld in which the type of espresso they order is a defining existenti...
Stirring grist, grizzle and gore to flavour the stew.