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Visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott brings together Academy-Award winners
(couple) Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz in his latest gripping drama thriller
“The Counselor” along with Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt and Cameron Diaz.
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Bardem and Cruz
have through the years proven themselves to be versatile actors playing a
variety of compelling characters, in “The Counselor,” the award winning couple
is at it again playing enticing characters never seen before on screen. Penned by Cormac McCarthy, “The Counselor”
follows the life of a respected lawyer who is tempted to enter a murky and
dangerous world to make some quick cash but had led him in an inexorable path to
disaster. Although he receives warnings
about the potential dangers of getting involved, The Counselor just couldn’t be
swayed.
Bardem who has
won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his chilling portrayal of a
sociopath killer in “No Country for Old Men” which McCarthy also wrote is once
again back in McCarthy’s envisioned world in “The Counselor” as Reiner. Bardem as Reiner is a larger-than-life
nightclub owner who brings The Counselor (Fassbender) into the shady deal of
quickly amassing large amount of money.
Reiner straddles two worlds: the extravagant and decadent realm of a
nightclub owner, and the brutal, lawless and merciless criminal underworld that
is rapidly closing in on The Counselor, and on Reiner. Reiner appears to possess special insight
into The Counselor’s increasingly dire circumstances, but he’s just as much a
potential victim of a life he little understands.
Bardem found
McCarthy’s script for “The Counselor” both intriguing and powerful, and
relished being back in McCarthy terrain again.
Says the actor: “It’s rare to
find material where lengthy scenes of dialogue can evoke such powerful images.
I was immediately hooked. I knew that for an actor this dialogue was a
gift.”
As The Counselor
finds a way out of this dangerous depth, an unplanned series of events lead to
dead ends for both him and his fiancée, Laura (Penélope Cruz). Cruz, an Academy-Award winner for Best
Supporting Actress in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” plays the vulnerable Laura in
the movie.
Cruz and
Fassbender’s first scene together, which opens the film, conveys the depth of
their feelings for one another, through an intimacy rarely depicted on
screen. “There is spectacular heat in
the characters’ relationship, and we experience that right away in that opening
scene,” says Scott. “It’s the kind of
intimacy that goes from zero to sixty in no time at all.”
Adds
McCarthy: “I don’t know when was the
last time I saw a film where two people I love, made love. It’s apparently a
thing of the past. So I thought I would
try and bring that back. The opening
scene is graphic, and the two characters speak like adults.” But their joyous engagement is marred by the
dangerous world of which The Counselor has become a part. Laura is beautiful and naïve; she sees the
best in everybody. Her intelligence and
foresight – and her love for The Counselor – are no match for his descent into
the rabbit hole, and they both face tragic consequences if the deal he has made
with unseen, powerful forces, goes south. “Laura is what he prizes most,” says McCarthy.
“What happens to them is unspeakable.”
If
there’s an innocent in this story, then it is Laura, a beautiful woman with
whom The Counselor, says Fassbender, “has fallen profoundly in love.”
Stylish,
sexy and dangerous – “The Counselor” will open November 13 in cinemas
nationwide from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.
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