In the steep-sided streets of the city of Detroit, in 1954, we can make out the caped figure of Don Cheadle walking forward with his head down.
A jazzy music - reminiscent of Roy Budd in
Get Carter -
accompanies this little black mobster seeking not to make waves.
The lipstick of a vamp
Barely out of prison, however, Curtis Goynes finds himself again embroiled in the intrigues of the local underworld. At the front of a big engine, Brendan Fraser, aged, fat, offers him a job. He will be joined by Benicio Del Toro, a thug as funny as he is refined. The plot plunges unrestrainedly into the sparkling imagery of film noir, from
Huston's
Maltese Falcon
to
Howard Hawks'
Big Sleep
after Hammett… Not to mention
In Fourth Gear
by Robert Aldrich adapted from Mickey Spillane. The Chevrolet Bel-Air drives peacefully. The lowered blinds let the twilight bloom, the voluptuous smoke of cigarettes, the furtive glow of guns, or the lipstick of a fatal vamp ready to betray
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