Many people who like dramatic thrillers are interested in the reviews about the film “The Price of Treason”. This is really a fascinating work by the Swedish director Mikael Hofström, which was shot in the USA in 2005. The film received high marks from critics thanks to a fascinating plot and a vivid play of brilliant actors.
Features of the picture
Reviews of the film "The Price of Treason" viewers left mostly positive. The picture was a film adaptation of the novel by the American writer James Siegel "Descended". The author himself acted as a screenwriter.
The tape came out for hire with the slogan "They did not even guess ...". This mystery and understatement attracted a large number of viewers to cinemas around the world. Charges in the world amounted to about 57 and a half million dollars. At the same time, the budget of the picture was about 22 million dollars.
Interestingly, the lead roles were played by Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen, who had never previously participated in joint projects. Moreover, for Aniston, this was the first serious work in a large project after the success that the series Friends brought to her. His filming ended two years earlier.
They shot the picture for four months in Chicago - from September to December 2004.
Plot
At the center of the story is an employee of an advertising agency, Charles Schein, who every day is surprisingly similar to the previous one. In the morning he takes the train to Chicago and sets off for work. At home he is waiting for his wife Diana, who works as a teacher at a local school, as well as Amy's daughter, who is suffering from diabetes.
According to the plot of the film “The Price of Treason,” the main character is late one morning on his train when he has to take care of his daughter for too long. As a result, he is forced to take the next train. At first glance, it seems that this is not unusual, but in reality it is not.
In the car, Charles finds himself opposite a charming woman named Lucinda. When it turns out that Charles does not have enough money to pay for the ticket, she offers to pay for it.
A light flirtation begins between a man and a woman, which at first looks quite innocent. However, after some time, Lucinda and Charles go on a date to the hotel, where everything starts to go awry. First, an armed unknown man breaks into their room, where they were going to indulge in love joys. He rapes Lucinda, after beating Charles. After this incident, the hero’s life changes dramatically. She turns into chaos, he constantly has to lie. Each lie carries another. There is a feeling that the end to this nightmare will never be.
Michael Hofstrom
In the film “The Price of Treason,” the director is Michael Hofstrom. This is a 58-year-old Swedish filmmaker who works in Hollywood.
He was born in 1960 in the small town of Lund. He studied cinema in Stockholm, and then continued his education in New York.
His first film, Living Life, in 2001 won the Swedish national film award for best screenplay.
Already his second work thundered to the whole world. The youth drama Evil was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but failed to receive the award.
The 2005 film The Price of Treason was the third full-length work of his career.
Since then, Hofstrom has shot four more feature films. This is the thriller "1408" based on the story of the same name by Stephen King, the detective drama "Shanghai", the mystical thriller "Rite" and the action movie "Escape Plan".
Clive Owen
The main role of an exemplary family man, who, as a result of circumstances, is unfaithful to his wife, is played in the film Derailed by the English actor Clive Owen.
This is a famous British, whose acting career has been successfully developing since the end of the 80s. The first popularity came to him back in his homeland after his role in the series "Lawyer". His first notable work in a big movie was Andrew Greave’s melodrama Lorna Dun.
In 1997, the military melodrama "Addiction", in which he played the main role, was awarded the prize of the Cannes Film Festival.
The star of him was the image of dermatologist Larry in the drama Mike Nichols "Intimacy." For this work he received the Golden Globe and BAFTA Prizes. In addition, he was still nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. But the statuette was handed to Morgan Freeman.
Vincent Cassel
The Frenchman Vincent Cassel was invited to the role of the main villain . In the film “The Price of Treason,” the actor and the role that he got looked as organically as possible. This was noted by most critics.
The 52-year-old artist is one of the most popular and sought after in the country for many years. For the first time on the big screen, he appeared in 1991 in the little-known film "Keys to Paradise." After small roles in the comedy melodrama José Diane's "Hot Chocolate" and the historical drama James Ivory "Jefferson in Paris" literally struck the cinema community with a vivid and memorable work in the black and white drama Mathieu Cassowitz's "Hate" about the life of adolescents in one of the ghetto blocks, embodying the image the main character.
Among his notable works, before The Price of Treason, it is worth noting the thriller Mathieu Kassovitz, The Crimson Rivers, the adventure action movie Christoph Hahn, The Brotherhood of the Wolf, and the dramatic thriller Gaspard Noe Irreversibility.
In the late 2010s, he became the main character in the dramatic thriller Jean-Francois Richet "Enemy of the State No. 1", for the sake of which he lost 20 kg.
Jennifer Aniston
The main female role in this international team was played by American Jennifer Aniston. It was she who played the mistress of the protagonist - Lucinda Harris.
It is worth recognizing that Aniston's most famous work took place not in the cinema, but on television. Her popularity was brought to the image of Rachel Green in the series "Friends", which appeared on the screens from 1994 to 2004.
Having finished work in the show, Aniston concentrated on a full-length movie, playing a huge number of bright roles. You can recall Payton Reed's comedy melodrama American Divorce, Ken Cuopis comedy Promise Doesn't Mean To Marry, Dennis Dugan's funny melodrama Pretend My Wife, Rawson Marshall Terber's comedy We Are Millers, Harry Marshall Ness's tragicomedy " In all these films, she played the main roles.
Spectator Impressions
Reviews for the movie "The Price of Treason" are mostly positive. For many viewers, this picture turned out to be a rare thriller that manages to keep the viewer's attention throughout the entire hour and a half of screen time.
The stellar cast assembled on the set turned out to be especially impressive. Although in the reviews of the film “The Price of Treason”, some noted that the two-meter Owen, known for his brutal character, is not suitable for the role of a mattress. But it was easy to fend off: after all, not all janitors and in real life can stand up for themselves, especially when they are in a critical family situation.