Thursday, December 08, 2005

Spielberg Talks Munich


Eric Bana and Ayelet July Zurer in Universal Pictures' Munich

Well, we're finally getting a review of Munich - now the Oscar prognosticators can begin to make sense in their claims of Munich's Oscar chances. TIME's got the only interview Spielberg's doing for press for the movie, as well as the first review, and it sounds good:

"The first and most important thing to say about Munich, Steven Spielberg's new film, is that it is a very good movie--good in a particularly Spielbergian way. By which one means that it has all the virtues we've come to expect when he is working at his highest levels. It's narratively clean, clear and perfectly punctuated by suspenseful and expertly staged action sequences. It's full of sympathetic (and in this case, anguished) characters, and it is, morally speaking, infinitely more complex than the action films it superficially resembles--pictures that simply pit terrorists against counterterrorists without an attempt to explore anyone's motives and their tragic implications."

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