What’s Aged the Best?
Look, sound and feel; David Holmes score; Lake Como and Vincent Cassel's lifestyle; Pitt's performance; Damon's thirst; ensemble chemistry; movie-star vacations
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- The look, sound and feel hold up; it works as a background movie that does not demand much.
- David Holmes's scores are undervalued in Soderbergh's work, nodding to 70s Italian crime soundtracks, Goblin and Morricone; the zither music at Isabel's mother's funeral is singled out.
- Lake Como and Vincent Cassel's lifestyle, down to the platter of fresh fruit, have aged well.
- A tangent about fruit bowls follows, with one participant eating an apple every day and another trying to grow citrus trees.
- Pitt's performance holds up: charming while going through a lot, with freeze-frame expressions; a Rusty Ryan hotel-owner movie would be welcome.
- Damon's thirst is an incredible vibe, and jumping from caving in terrorists' skulls in Bucharest straight to this film shows he knew what he was doing; his 2001-04 credits are read out.
- Damon and Affleck appear in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot.
- The ensemble chemistry still checks out, and so does the idea of movies as vacations for rich people.
- A second voice picks the look and style, which differ from the American, casino-bound first film and resemble European heist films like The Italian Job, with an expat melancholy.
- The Amsterdam bridge shot at sunset is rewound three times; the repeated zooms when Cherry Jones removes them from prison read as a self-referential joke.
- Movies they don't make anymore rarely look this good; Soderbergh cited Seconds, French New Wave and Italian crime films, and the sideways shot of Tess's plane is praised.