IN THE LOOP (2009) ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Armando Iannucci
Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Chris Addison,
Mimi Kennedy, Anna Chlumsky, Gina McKee,
James Gandolfini, David Rasche, Enzo Cilenti
Political underlings on both sides of the Atlantic deceive, insult, seduce and double-deal their way to a war resolution at the U.N. A merciless, warp-speed black comedy laced with so much inventive, laugh-out-loud profanity that one viewing, or even two or three, might not be enough. The game's the thing for these characters, and they're all juiced on playing it, with the possible exception of James Gandolfini as a medal-heavy Army general, the only guy in the room who actually knows something about war. You'd like to think wars don't really get started this way. But then there's the war in Iraq . . .
