The Outfit (2022)
This sleeper of a story is presently on Netflix. We watched it over the weekend. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t even have bothered with it, but when you’re at someone else’s home, you go along for the ride.
The Outfit is a 2022 American psychological crime drama thriller film directed by Graham Moore in his directorial debut from a screenplay by Moore and Johnathan McClain. The film stars Mark Rylance who leads an ensemble cast including Zoey Deutch, Johnny Flynn, Dylan O’Brien, Nikki Amuka-Bird, and Simon Russell Beale. Rylance plays an English cutter who runs a tailor shop in Chicago, whose primary customers are a family of vicious gangsters. The film premiered at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival on February 14, 2022, and was released in the United States on March 18, 2022, by Focus Features, to positive reviews from critics.
I won’t tell you the plot, but the story is about one’s past catching up with them. The story slowly evolves, but the clues are there, if you watch for them. Mark Rylance is so understated that, at first, you wonder if he had wandered onto the set of a three act stage play, which takes place over the space of 24 to 48 hours in one location in Chicago in 1956. His description of how to cut and sew a suit of clothes also seemed out of place, until later, when the reason for the narration becomes clear. At any rate, the film is ‘shear’ perfection, from start to finish. I would highly recommend the time to watch it, without distraction. The twists and turns are masterful, and a masterclass in how to manipulate your enemies to achieve your personal ends. Brilliant.
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