Kiss of Death
Barbet Schroeder
Jimmy, a one-time petty crook, lives with his wife and daughter when his cousin takes him on a dangerous journey which eventually leads him to prison. Then, the police make him infiltrate Little Junior Brown's gang.
With : David Caruso, Samuel Lee Jackson, Helen Hunt, Ving Rhames, Nicolas Cage, Stanley Tucci
Screenplay : Richard Price
Image : Luciano Tovoli
Editing : Lee Percy
Music : Trevor Jones
Decors : Roberta J. Holinko
Screenplay : Richard Price
Image : Luciano Tovoli
Editing : Lee Percy
Music : Trevor Jones
Decors : Roberta J. Holinko
Production : Barbet Schroeder, Susan Hoffman
Distribution: 20th Century Fox
Distribution: 20th Century Fox
This is Barbet Schroeder's fourth American film, and one in which he looks at the film noir genre, with this remake of Henry Hathaway's Kiss of death, made in 1947. For Barbet Schroeder, the challenge is not reproducing the atmosphere of the films noirs of the 1940, but rather making a modern, contemporary one" (Nicolas Saada). The very realistic action scenes follow in quick succession and the film was shot entirely in the Queens district of New York. "The direction always strives to do away with effects, framing, lights, to take the film to a sort of calm, of restrain, within which everything could explode" (Nicolas Saada).