Marlowe (2022)

Directed by

Neil Jordan

Genre

film noir, thriller film, police film

Country

France, United States, Spain, Ireland

Runtime

1h 49m

Rated

R

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 439 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1930s Los Angeles, private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy heiress to find her missing lover. The case pulls him into a web of secrets and danger among the city's elite.

slow-burnnoirmoodymelancholicgrittysuspensefulretroworld-weary

What happens

Marlowe is a 2022 neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Neil Jordan, who co-wrote the screenplay with William Monahan. Based on the 2014 novel The Black-Eyed Blonde by John Banville, writing under the pen name Benjamin Black, the film stars Liam Neeson as private detective Philip Marlowe, a fictional character created by Raymond Chandler, and features Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Alan Cumming, Francois Arnaud, Ian Hart, Danny Huston, Daniela Melchior and Colm Meaney. It premiered at the 70th San Sebastián International Film Festival on 24 September 2022 and was theatrically released in the United States on 15 February 2023, by Open Road Films and Briarcliff Entertainment. The film made $6.2 million in theaters and received generally negative reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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