THE AMERICAN

USA
2010
105 minutes

An armourer chased by mysterious assassins hides in a picturesque Italian village while fulfilling one last contract. Stylish, drawn-out paranoid mystery, precisely tooled.

Starring George Clooney, Violante Placido, Thekla Reuten, Paolo Bonacelli, Johan Leysen.
Directed by Anton Corbijn; produced by Anne Carey, Jill Green, Ann Wingate, Grant Heslov, Mr. Clooney; screenplay by Rowan Joffe, based on the novel by Martin Booth, A Very Private Gentleman; music by Herbert Grönemeyer; director of photography (colour, widescreen), Martin Ruhe; production designer, Mark Digby; costume designer, Suttirat Anne Larlarb; film editor, Andrew Hulme.
A Focus Features presentation of a This Is That/Greenlit/Smokehouse production; produced in association with Twins Financing. (US distributor, Focus Features. World sales, Focus Features International.)
Screened: distributor advance press screening, UCI El Corte Inglés 12 (Lisbon), November 5th 2010.

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