Product Description

Self-destructive journalist Pierre Peders (Buscemi) is no stranger to violence and inhumanity. Having made his name as a war reporter, he has traveled the world seeing some of the most horrifying sights imaginable. So he feels that his current puff-piece assignment, an interview with pop diva, TV and movie star Katya (Miller), is beneath his dignity. The two meet in a restaurant and, instantly, it's a collision of two worlds: Pierre's serious political focus and Katya's superficial world of celebrity. But perhaps all is not as it appears. When Pierre is slightly injured in a traffic accident inadvertently caused by Katya, she's the proverbial girl who causes traffic accidents, they end up in Katya's spacious loft for a long night of talking, drinking, sparring, and coming close to a sort of embattled intimacy. Each is scarred in their own way, aching from deep, hidden pain. But honest revelations give way to punishing deceptions. Their confrontation evolves into a passionate verbal chess game spiked with wit, intrigue and sexual tension, capped with a riveting twist ending.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35057 in DVD
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2007-12-11
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 84 minutes

Amazon.com
After directing three films and an Emmy-winning episode of The Sopranos, Steve Buscemi turned to Holland--specifically to the work of Theo van Gogh. Before his 2004 murder by an Islamic extremist, the Dutch filmmaker (and Vincent van Gogh descendent) was planning an English-language version of his 2003 Interview--even considering Madonna for the Katja Schuurman role. In Buscemi's reconfiguration, the actor plays jaded journalist Pierre. Once a war correspondent, he now takes any gig he can get. When his editor assigns him an interview with tabloid fixture Katya (Sienna Miller, doing her finest work to date), Pierre grudgingly acquiesces. Their first meeting in a restaurant is a bust. But through a chance second encounter, they continue their verbal volly in her roomy Manhattan loft, where Pierre discovers that Katya is sharper than her image suggests, and she learns about his tragic past. They flirt, fight, kiss, and cry. By the end it becomes clear that one of them isn't being completely honest. As an acting exercise, Interview gets the job done, and Miller’s American accent is especially convincing. As a story, it's less satisfying, not because of the minimal cast or stage-like setting--My Dinner With André made a virtue out of similar limitations--but because the opponents aren't evenly matched. They're also less agreeable than Louis Malle's dining companions. Interview is first in a trio of van Gogh adaptations, with Stanley Tucci attached to Blind Date and John Turturro to 1-900. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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INTERVIEW (2007) is actually an English-language remake of a movie made by assassinated filmmaker Theo Van Gogh.

It's essentially a 2-person play that would probably make an excellent theatre piece, but director Steve Buscemi, who also does one of the leads, keeps his camera fluid and the performances so compelling that one tends to forget that almost all the action takes place in one room.

Buscemi plays a self-destructive political journalist who, as a "punishment," is assigned to interview pop B-movie star Sienna Miller. Since he's never seen one of her movies and knows nothing about her that he hasn't read in the tabloids, he goes to the interview totally unprepared...and it's instant hate between the two of them.

She walks out on the interview, but then he's injured in a minor traffic accident, which is partially her fault, and she invites him up to her nearby loft to treat his slightly wounded forehead.

What follows is a long night of talking, drinking, sparring, and coming close to a kind of embattled intimacy. There is also deception, which leads to a delicious twist ending for this extremely well acted drama.

© Michael B. Druxman, author of ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (available December 2008)

Youth against worn out wordliness
Smart movie starring two excellent actors Sienna Miller and Steve Buscemi. This unlikely pair will keep you engaged from start to finish. Sienna plays Katya, young, pretty, seemingly shallow acress who takes on roles in daytime soap operas and thriller movies. Pierre is jaded war correspondent, sarcastic, middle aged and more or less wasted. Pierre's job is to interview the starlet as part of his editor's People Profile column. Surely, neither people profile not the startlet herself is the kind of writing that Pierre wishes to do. He would prefer to be in Washington, DC following up with the latest political topsy-turvy of the capital's national politics. Circumstances place these two in Katya's apartment where they verbally battle each other out for both their career and personal choices. It is apparent that both of them are damaged and as such incapable of compassion and decent human interaction. Both have a goal and use their professions to win over the other individual. Which one of these two consummate actors will win at the end? Will it be the youth and inexperience, or perpetually unhappy worldliness? You will have to watch this movie to find out!

Enthralling Interview
Steve Buscemi's "Interview", timing in at 86 min. with a whopping 3 setting changes, is a suprisingly intuitive character study for being so short. Veteran Buscemi and up and comer, Siena Miller, mesh with complete ease and everything seems to work well.


Along with a very interesting screenplay, these two actors completely devulge into their characters and really compliment eachothers strong points. I really cannot emphasize how fun it is to watch these two in action. It's strange how simplistic you think the film is for the first half only to get to the second half and realize your watching a complex drama of a rare sort.


Under the radar as of late, this little indie flick is totally worth a rental. Try not to let the ending throw you off too much.


***1/2 Stars out of **** Stars