DOMINO
DAN, 2019 - 89'
Director: Brian de Palma / Screenplay: Petter Skavlan / Cast: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Carice van Houten, Guy Pearce, Paprika Steen, Thomas W. Gabrielsson / Cinematography: José Luis Alcaine
Domino, the film directed by Brian De Palma, follows the story of Christian, a cop of the special crime unit in Copenhagen, seeking justice for the murder of a colleague of his. Together with her colleague Alex, a policewoman from her own district, she embarks on an international manhunt to find the culprit, affiliated with a Danish ISIS cell. Soon they will find they are dealing with a much more murky intrigue than they could have imagined.
In a desperate race against time, the two policemen will have to discover the pieces of this delicate game of balance and at the same time save their lives.
Brian De Palma is one of the greatest authors of the so-called New Hollywood, which changed the cinema of the studios in the 70s. He is the author of contemporary classics like Carrie, Scarface, Carlito's Way, The Untouchables and Mission: Impossible. The film was partly shot in the Spanish region of Almeria, dear to Italian directors of spaghetti westerns and to Sergio Leone.
Brian Russell De Palma. Born in Newark in 1940, he is an American director, screenwriter and film producer. He is considered one of the directors who contributed to the birth of New Hollywood. It is characterized by high-impact shots, such as the slow-motion feature or the 360 ° rotation of the camera around a body. Inspired largely by the techniques of Alfred Hitchcock, in a forty-year career he has experimented in numerous film genres, ranging from horror to thriller, from gangster movies to science fiction: his works include classic films such as Carrie, Scarface , The Untouchables and Mission: Impossible.
