Last month we got a look at a trailer for The American, a thriller starring George Clooney that’s based on the novel, A Very Private Gentleman, by Martin Booth. This new trailer (released by IMDB) is shorter, but I think is actually more effective even when using some of the same shots, in that it actually makes you want to it beyond simply banking on Clooney’s sensibility. Personally, all you had to tell me was “Violante Placido” (for reason displayed above) and I was there, but this cut actually looks kick ass and not quite as laid back as the first.
Anton Corbijn is in the director’s chair in a film that casts Clooney as an assassin who has had his fill of the trade and has him come to my country of residence (also Clooney’s–his house is bigger) getting mixed up with priests and Italian lovelies (which excluding the priest part seems like what I so often imagine what a standard Clooney-day is).
Film Synopsis - When an assignment goes wrong and a lover ends up dead, he vows that the next job will be his last. This final obligation takes him to a picturesque town nestled amongst lush Italian hills, its historical piazzas bursting with life. But to Jack, every location is a trap and every person a potential threat. Still, he surprises himself, enjoying confessional conversations over Armagnac with an insightful priest and slipping into an affair with a local beauty. But by letting his guard down, Jack may be tempting fate. A dangerous shadow-dweller shows every sign of closing in, and the mysterious woman who has hired him may not be all that she seems. As an increasingly wary Jack contemplates life, love and death in Italy, the film escalates into a climactic showdown through the cobbled maze of age-old alleyways. This sexy, suspenseful and intricate story blends intrigue and passionate romance within a searing morality tale to finally reveal the heart of this deeply private man.
