Laura Quinn (Demi Moore) is a rarity for 1960. She is a Vice President with the world’s largest diamond wholesaler, based in London. She watches in frustration as all of her male co-workers are promoted around her, leaving her with the same responsibilities, the same office, the same schedule. She comes in early every day and leaves last every night, yet her boss Sir Milton Ashtoncroft (Joss Ackland) doesn’t seem to inspect. Ashtoncroft is a shady character at best, but Quinn realizes she will never be able to find a comparable job anywhere else. Mr. Hobbs (Michael Caine), one of the many janitors, has worked for the same company for years. In his nightly rounds, he has made observations and approaches Ms. Quinn with an conception. He could, with her assistance, consume a tiny handful of diamonds from the company vault, enough to location them each up for a long time. They could each dash the lives they are trapped in. Quinn is dubious but Mr. Hobbs shows her how he would do it, and she is on board. But it looks like Mr. Hobbs has other ideas and other motives.
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“Flawless”, directed by Michael Radford (”Il Postino”) is an captivating, overlooked film. At it’s heart, “Flawless” is a caper film “based on a suitable myth”, but it presents so many other ideas and themes, making it more complex and contemplate able.
Michael Caine is, as always, sizable. Mr. Hobbs is the agreeable dilapidated man you stare hobbling along, satisfied with his state in life, always interested and willing to do his job. But as we learn more and more about him, we seek there are many other levels to his character. Caine is a tall actor, a subtle actor and he reveals these layers slowly making them more believable and surprising. It isn’t Caine’s best performance ever, but Mr. Hobbs is immensely study able.
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Demi Moore is also well-behaved as Laura Quinn, an American woman working for an international firm in London in 1960. She realizes how hard she has to work to occupy this place, so she comes to work early and leaves slack, always checking in with security as she does so. But what does this glean her? A lot of lonely nights at her flat, eating dinner alone. As the sage progresses, we gape Quinn’s aggravation with her dwelling, but because she has to calm fill her persona, she can’t become too emotional or upset. This becomes an asset to their conception.
And when the diamonds are stolen, the company calls in an investigator, Finch (Lambert Wilson) . Perhaps the best thing about “Flawless” is that everyone is shapely smart; Mr. Hobbs comes up with the conception, Quinn contributes definite qualities and Finch begins to suspect determined people as he tries to figure out how the robbery was accomplished.
Michael Radford, who gained a lot of attention with “Il Postino”, has struggled since, releasing a series of films that were either critically maligned, rapidly forgotten by the public, or both. Unfortunately, “Flawless” won’t change his fortunes, but it is a generous film.
As the anecdote and the heist fade, he uses the canvas as a arrangement to introduce many other themes, helping to attach the time and setting for the film. The company Quinn and Hobbs work for is a tremendous diamond collective based in Botswana. In addition to the heist, the company officers have to handle the press who are circling because of the daily protests about the company’s involvement with blood diamonds. Laura Quinn recognizes she is a rarity; a female executive at a enormous corporation in London, and an American woman at that. So this causes her to be a bit tentative and reluctant to join Hobbs idea. Instead, she would rather continue trying to work hard; continue trying to beat at the glass ceiling. As the anecdote unfolds, and she begins to realize how her male co-workers treat her, she knows she will never rise above her novel station.
The anecdote takes some unexpected turns because Hobbs and Quinn aren’t just with one another. And this provides a quiet level of excitement. When we finally learn the motive slack the robbery, another theme is introduced.
If this film is, as stated, “based on a proper account”, it is a account that far ahead of its time. It is for this reason that I have to wonder how distinguished of this tale is based on accurate events. I suspect not great. But “Flawless” is a pleasurable diversion and a ample film to recognize on DVD.
There’s nothing really imperfect with this film - it fair seems to tumble sort of flat. There isn’t the chemistry there should be between Michael Caine and Demi Moore. And their diamond heist belief is only allowed to proceed forward by virtue of a couple of highly astounding strokes of satisfactory luck - such as having a pair of binoculars topple into Moore’s hands at impartial the fair moment.
There is also something a petite disturbingly harsh and unconvincing about the lighting and make-up work on this film. The stars peruse prematurely mature at the launch of the movie. Then as the scene arcs to Demi Moore as an former woman, she looks even more unconvincing as a senior. Early movies passe to do a notoriously dreadful job of making young people behold passe. Perhaps it wasn’t the fault of the make-up artists. It might be even more difficult to design a young person spy primitive than it is to manufacture an archaic person inspect young. In the last decade or so though, the art of make-up and prosthetic devices seemed to grow equal to the task. But now “Flawless” plot the art help again with Moore’s obviously adventitious wrinkles.
While this is primarily a caper film, a strong secondary theme is “You’ve advance a long plot, baby!” This movie is effective at showing how precarious Demi Moore’s area was in the 1960’s when she was the only female executive in a diamond brokerage firm. She has to budge a thin line between coming up with a stream of innovative, profit-making ideas for the firm - and conforming to corporate culture and consensus. Whichever side of that line she falls on, she is always in worry of being undermined by her male co-workers who recall priority when it comes to corporate advancement.
However, I’m not obvious the movie makes its case for how noteworthy better things are nowadays when it shows fresh executive women being noteworthy simply by virtue of having frequently ringing cell phones and having cultivated a bustling, confident plod.
This DVD unfortunately has no full-length Director’s commentary, only fragmentary “Making Of” commentaries. I would have liked an accompanying voice-over that explained a number of the confusing position points and filled in what I opinion were some missing links in the place.
There were also no English subtitles for this film. Again, I missed those, especially in the early fraction of the film when Caine and Moore content in such hasty sotto vocce that I had peril catching everything they said.
All in all, this movie has some merit, but it’s sufficient to rent it. There’s nothing here to warrant making it a portion of your permanent collection.
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