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Daniel Handler (writer)
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Envy, lust, murder...business as usual.
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"Rigoletto" retold at Christmas time in Manhattan's corporate world. Rick, an executive at Image, is a jerk to a woman applying for a job...
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AFF09 Daily Dispatch: Day Five
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(From Slackerwood. 27 October 2009, 7:00 AM, PDT)
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Rick O'Lette as Rigoletto
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Bill Pullman | ... | Rick O'Lette | |
| Aaron Stanford | ... | Duke | |
| Agnes Bruckner | ... | Eve O'Lette | |
| Sandra Oh | ... | Michelle | |
| Dylan Baker | ... | Buck | |
| Emmanuelle Chriqui | ... | Duke's Long-Suffering Wife | |
| Marianne Hagan | ... | Laura | |
| Jerome Preston Bates | ... | Lobby Guard | |
| Jamie Harris | ... | Mick | |
| Paz de la Huerta | ... | Vicki | |
| Marin Rathje | ... | Mrs. O'Lette in Picture | |
| William Ryall | ... | Rick's Doorman | |
| Daniel Handler | ... | Perky Waiter | |
| Dennis Parlato | ... | BusinessTalk Anchor | |
| P.J. Brown | ... | Jack Lantern |
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Rated R for sexual content and language.
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Canada:100 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | USA:100 min
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Rick takes his daughter to dinner at Verdi's, a restaurant named after the composer of 'Rigoletto', the opera from which the movie is drawn. While they dine, the music playing in the background is "La donna è mobile", the Duke's aria from the last act of the opera.
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Continuity: When Buck gives his business card to Rick, it has a '666' phone number, but when Rick uses the business card in Eve's bedroom to set up the hit, the phone number starts with '555'.
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Michelle:
Okay, you can do this Rick. You can humiliate me, and mock me, and insult me and get me fired.
Rick O'Lette: Look I didn't know...
Michelle: But you know what? You're still an evil person, Rick. You hurt an innocent person and you will pay for it. I curse you Rick. You're an evil person with an evil soul, and it'll come back to you, it will come right back at you. I curse you, Rick O'Lette. It will come right back at you.
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Rick O'Lette: Look I didn't know...
Michelle: But you know what? You're still an evil person, Rick. You hurt an innocent person and you will pay for it. I curse you Rick. You're an evil person with an evil soul, and it'll come back to you, it will come right back at you. I curse you, Rick O'Lette. It will come right back at you.
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Features American Psycho (2000)
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Great Wooden Bridge
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Rick, well received at the SXSW festival this year, is a faithful modernization of Giuseppe Verdi's 1851 tragic opera "Rigoletto," which was also a reworking of Victor Hugo's "Le Roi s'amuse." I did not realize this until the Q & A period following the film, and it made all the difference.
Without the tie to the opera, the film will be judged too much on the curse of believability, and that is a shame.
The trio of Pullman, Aaron Stanford as Duke a.k.a. Bigboss, and especially Agnes Bruckner pull off strong performances.
The dark moods and sound of the film are terrific, and the use of anonymous Internet sex chat to set up the relationship between Rick's boss and his daughter Eve (Agnes Bruckner) works well.
Rick does have some difficulties. The crucial misfire is an absurd plot contrivance used to set up a mistaken identity.
Director Curtiss Clayton has had difficulty distributing this film that has everything going against it in today's market - Pullman's unlikable main character Rick O'Lette, lack of a happy ending, and if Clayton mentions Rigoletto as the basis of the film, he is met with blank stares. Hopefully, he'll run into one opera-savvy distributor and get Rick beyond the film festivals, at least into the art houses.
8.5/10