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Name: The Limits of Control
Released: 2009-5-1
Cast: Isaach De Bankole, Alex Descas, Jean-Francois Stevenin, Oscar Jaenada, Luis Tosar

The Limits of Control

R
1h 56m
2009

43%

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Acclaimed filmmaker Jim Jarmusch delivers a stylish and sexy new thriller about a mysterious loner (De Bankolé) who arrives in Spain with instructions to meet various strangers, each one a part of his dangerous mission. Featuring an all-star international cast that includes Isaach De Bankolé, Gael García Bernal, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton and Bill Murray, it’s a stunning journey in an exotic Spanish landscape that simmers with heat and suspense.

Director:

Jim Jarmusch

Producer:

Stacey Smith, Gretchen McGowan

Writer:

Jim Jarmusch

Cast:

Isaach De Bankole, Alex Descas, Jean-Francois Stevenin, Oscar Jaenada, Luis Tosar, Paz de la Huerta, Tilda Swinton, Youki Kudoh, John Hurt, Gael Garcia Bernal, Hiam Abbass, Bill Murray

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

43%

Critics Consensus: A minimalist exercise in not much of anything, The Limits of Control is a tedious viewing experience with little reward.

Reviews

International Cinephile Society

Dustin Chang

Less hypnotic than Dead Man but infinitely more interesting than anything else he's done since, Limits of Control is more of an exercise in Jarmusch-ism.

Only Jarmusch can get away with pretentious movie about art like this. Less hypnotic than Dead Man but infinitely more interesting than anything else he's done since, Limits of Control is more of an exercise in Jarmusch-ism.

What begins as an exercise in existentialism and surrealism graduates into the amateurish experiment of a hitman procedural.

November 29, 2020

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Charleston City Paper

Felicia Feaster

Some will find [Jarmusch's] excavation intriguing. The rest of us may long for the enticements of meaningful dialogue, character, and story, and a compelling film hero to make it all feel worthwhile.

This is not a genre exercise that subverts all expectations. It is a genre exercise that strips out everything that makes it compelling.

January 24, 2020

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