The movie takes a while to start. Asia Argento stars in the title role as a criminal who wants to go straight in spite of the pressures placed upon her. Jared Harris is a primary school teacher by day, and plays jazz for the hospital radio by night. He is smitten by Asia, who turns around and throws herself at him. As the romantic movie drags on, I keep waiting for the real plot to begin. Rupert Everett is her partner in crime, a somewhat wealthy man who is bi and caters to celebrities. Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays his brutish on-again off-again lover, also part of the crime trio.
Argento is overly passionate and provides Jared the excitement his proper boring life does not crave. It is slower developing than say "Into the Night" or "Something Wild" and is not nearly as good as either film. When you think the film is going to pick up and go someplace, it spins its wheels and somehow turns itself into some kind of chick flick Cinderella story. They started out using a jazz background for a normal life and everything else for aspects of criminal life, but later they deviated from that formula. The movie needed a few more good crime scenes to carry it.
F-bomb, sex, full frontal nudity (Asia Argento)
Argento is overly passionate and provides Jared the excitement his proper boring life does not crave. It is slower developing than say "Into the Night" or "Something Wild" and is not nearly as good as either film. When you think the film is going to pick up and go someplace, it spins its wheels and somehow turns itself into some kind of chick flick Cinderella story. They started out using a jazz background for a normal life and everything else for aspects of criminal life, but later they deviated from that formula. The movie needed a few more good crime scenes to carry it.
F-bomb, sex, full frontal nudity (Asia Argento)