PICTURE CLAIRE (2001) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Bruce McDonald
Juliette Lewis, Gina Gershon, Callum Keith Rennie,
Camilla Rutherford, Peter Stebbings, Kelly Harms,
Tracy Wright, Raoul Bhaneja, Mickey Rourke
Juliette Lewis plays a small-time thief and sometime police informant who escapes from Montreal after some drug dealers torch her apartment. She lands in Toronto, broke and at loose ends, but trouble seems to follow her everywhere. I wouldn't know whether Juliette's French is any good, but she doesn't say much, so maybe it's okay. Mickey Rourke is his usual scuzzy self and (thankfully) gets killed off in the opening reel. The late Tracy Wright turns up as a police detective and gets just enough screen time to make you wish she'd stuck around a lot longer. In the pantheon of escapist thrillers you've probably never heard of, this is a good one. Made in Canada.
