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360

Written by Peter Morgan

Directed by Fernando Meirelles

UK/Austria/France/Brazil, 2011

360’s writer Peter Morgan has declared that the film is directly inspired by Reigen, an 1897 play notably adapted to film by Max Ophüls as La ronde in 1950. The title of Morgan’s work, directed by Fernando Meirelles, derives from the 360 degrees of a circle, and the film notably begins and ends with the exact same scenario; things are destined to repeat themselves. La ronde and 360 are both portmanteau films, which have become especially popular in the last decade thanks to directors like Alejandro González Iñárritu with Babel and Amores perros, and the commercial and awards success of Paul Haggis’ Crash. While these films – that either examine a particular city or country, or take place at various locations around the planet – at least attempted to reflect on specific social anxieties that acted as recurring themes, 360 seem to draw entirely...

Director Fernando Meirelles (Blindness; City of God) and screenwriter Peter Morgan (The Damned United; The Queen) have teamed up for the first time, and the result is a subtle and striking globehopping ensemble drama of human interactions shaped by sex and love, honesty and deception, allure and retreat. Nearly everything that happens onscreen here is defined by what people do not say to one another: this a sophisticated step up -- way up -- from, say, Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve, and it’s much more delicate and graceful than the film it’s most like, the controversial Oscar Best Picture Crash. From Vienna to Paris to London to Denver, we meet a married man traveling on business (Jude Law: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows) tempted to stray with a prostitute -- “Blanka” (Lucia Siposová) is on her first “date” and nervous about it. We meet a man...

In a photo studio in Vienna, a sleazy photographer (Johannes Krisch) is coaxing a young Slovakian woman, Mirkha (Lucia Siposová), into posing for her first nude pictures. We soon find out this man is also a pimp, and the pictures are for luring clients on the internet. Her younger sister Anna (Gabriela Marcinkova) tries to persuade her to reconsider but Mirkha has her mind made up. She needs the money and wants to change her life. Her sister intones through darkly humorous voiceover, “If there’s a fork in the road, take it.” It’s a highly provocative opening for what ends up being just a so-so anthology of interwoven tales, even though director Fernando Meirelles ("City Of God," “The Constant Gardener”) assembles an impressive international cast for stories spanning Vienna, Paris, London, Bratislava, Rio, Denver and Phoenix. Jude Law plays a family man on a business trip to Vienna,...

"Now we've grown up... become different people." Magnolia Pictures has debuted the official Us trailer for Fernando Meirelles' sexy dramatic thriller 360, an intertwining ensemble that dazzlingly weaves together the stories of an array of people from disparate social backgrounds in intersecting relationships. Rachel Weisz stars as one of the central women, along with Gabriela Marcinkova and Lucia Siposová. The cast includes Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law, Ben Foster and Jamel Debbouze. I'm rather intrigued by this trailer, I love its use of music, it builds a very seductive look at this drama, now very curious to see it. Here's the first official Us trailer for Fernando Meirelles' 360, in high def from Apple: Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's 1900 play La Ronde, in 360, director Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener, Blindness) and writer Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost/Nixon, Hereafter) combine modern and dynamic original stories into one, linking...

The BFi London Film Festival got off to a cracking start last night with the gala screening of Fernando Meirelles' 360, the globe-spanning ensemble piece starring Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Anthony Hopkins, Jamel Debbouze, Ben Foster, Moritz Bleibtreu and more.Law led the assembled stars alongside much of the film's European cast, including Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Lucia Siposová, Gabriela Marcinkova and Dinara Drukarova. Also in attendance that we spotted were Tom Hiddleston, Terry Gilliam and Bonnie Wright and much of Blighty's film industry movers and shakers.The London Film Festival continues until October 26; look out for 360 at cinemas all over early next year, we're guessing.In other Lff news, a couple of extra events have just been added to the schedule: there's a Seth Rogen & Will Reiser interview happening for 50/50, and a Woody Harrelson talk in connection with his new effort, Rampage. Get after it!

In a photo studio in Vienna, a sleazy photographer (Johannes Krisch) is coaxing a young Slovakian woman Mirkha (Lucia Siposová) into posing for her first nude pictures. We soon find out this man is also a pimp and the pictures are for luring clients on the internet. Her younger sister Anna (Gabriela Marcinkova) tries to persuade her to reconsider but she has her mind made up. She needs the money and wants to change her life. Her sister intones through darkly humorous voiceover “If there’s a fork in the road, take it.” It’s a highly provocative opening for what ends…...