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He got used to it, but audiences at Cannes have been divided on how well his trans-Atlantic hybrid of a film succeeds. The '70s look of the film is powerfully evocative -- all polyester, vast cars and even vaster moustaches -- and the soundtrack is chock-full of killer tunes. The counter-intuitive casting of British actor Owen as a ruthless crook pays off, and there are some strong performances from a multinational cast that includes Marion Cotillard, Zoe Saldana and Mila Kunis. Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts ("Bullhead,"
''Rust and Bone") is especially impressive as a vengeful tough. The goal of mixing crime-thriller action with domestic scenes is laudable, and anyone with siblings will recognize the dynamics at play during a disastrous Thanksgiving dinner involving Crudup, Owen, sister Lili Taylor and dad James Caan. But at almost two-and-a-half hours long, some found the movie flabby and its changes of pace and tone uncertain. "What excites me a lot about the script is that it's really a character story, too. You get deeply into the lives of those people," Canet said. But he conceded he might have to trim the film for release in the U.S., where Lionsgate has acquired distribution rights. "I will probably have to cut some stuff for the American audience," he admitted. "The American audience doesn't have this interest of getting into some moments like this, and silence. They want another pace and another rhythm." Canet thinks that's a shame. He worries that something is being irretrievably lost with the decline of the director-driven movies he grew up watching. "There is something particular in this cinema that I like and that I miss right now as an audience," he said. "It's to have the time with the characters. I think that nowadays we are eating life so fast, we are doing things so fast ... (and) in the cinema it's the same thing. We don't take time to digest things." He fears a sense of film history is disappearing, too. "Four years ago, I was in the office of one of the heads of a really important studio in the U.S.," Canet said. "And I talked to him about Jerry Schatzberg -- and he didn't know who he was."
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