Interview (2007)

	Directed by: Steve Buscemi	COUNTRY USA/Canada/ Netherlands GENRE Drama NORWEGIAN TITLE Interview RUNNING TIME 85 minutes
	Produced by: Gijs van de Westelaken Bruce Weiss
	Written by (based on the film by Theo Van Gogh): Steve Buscemi David Schechter

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Katya	Sienna Miller
Pierre Peters	Steve Buscemi
Robert Peters	Michael Buscemi
Boyfriend on phone (voice)	James Franco

Review

Based on a 2003 film by the late, controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, Steve Buscemi's Interview feels like it should have evoked more emotion and thought than it actually does. It's a competent but ultimately feeble attempt at portraying two self-centered, merciless products of two different extremes of the mass-media society – and the power struggle that unfolds between them. Formally, this is intriguing and well set-up, with actors Sienna Miller and Buscemi both having the capacity to hold their own in a stagy two-way drama, but their Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?-ish outbursts and mood shifts never become as dynamic or spontaneous as one could hope, and the film ultimately suffers from its format. The characters lack the distinctiveness that would have made them layered and interesting. Instead, they feel half-done, resulting in an ending that doesn't hold the power and bittersweetness it should.