The Frame

AKA Steven Soderbergh’s incredibly obvious homage to 1940s cinema in general and Casablanca in particular. George Clooney investigates the death of a journalist (Tobey Maguire) in post-WWII Berlin and finds it’s tied up with a former flame of his (Cate Blanchett) and her husband, a scientist trying to get out of the country. Shot in B&W on 1940s equipment, it’s an interesting and well-meaning experiment, but not a wholly successful one. It’s never as compelling as you want it to be, but I liked the idea enough to stick with it.
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