The Gist: Oscar winner Gavin Hood (director of 2005 Oscar Foreign Language Film winner “Tsotsi“) celebrates his Hollywood debut with the political thriller “Rendition,” in which he directs Reese Witherspoon as the wife of an Egyptian chemical engineer who’s being secretly held at a detention facility outside the country. Backed by a CIA analyst (Peter Sarsgaard), she heads over to the powers that be in Washington D.C. to learn more about her husband’s mysterious disappearance.
In Summary: The list of flicks about the war on terrorism just keeps growing, and while upcoming releases such as Robert Redford’s “Lions for Lambs” look rather dreary, the trailer for “Rendition” emits striking intensity that promises top-notch performances and a thrilling plot. Witherspoon’s apparent hysteria in the movie seems a little over-the-top, but Meryl Streep and Alan Arkin will save the day no matter what [ed. or at least hopefully]
Quotables: “What if the press were to get a hold of this dedicated family man just swirled away to God knows where?”
Release Date: October 19.
PS: Hood is slated to direct the “X-Men” related-spinoff “Wolverine” with Hugh Jackman.
This post written by contributor Franck Tabouring
