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Title: Tantalisingly seedy
Review: This one has all the trimmings: a seedy, noirish atmosphere, pungent eroticism and a gripping plot. Oliver Stone's visual direction is nothing short of perfect. The treatment is expressionistic, dead-pan, sometimes gruesomely lyrical, e.g. a close-up shot of a cat mangled on the road, a woman's corpse with a laughing rictus, alternations from black-and-white to colour. The cast of cynical, hilariously irreverent characters -- played by Lopez, Nolte, Penn -- make this film one of the very best of its kind. Still, it's a film for the few, since some scenes are so bizarre that even hardened viewers won't be able to help being pleasantly shaken by them.
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