If you can suspend all disbelief — if you can accept the idea that a glamorous starlet would invite a pompous reporter into her home, get drunk with him, do coke in front of him and eventually make out with him — then maybe you can allow yourself to surrender to "Interview," a prolonged sparring match between Steve Buscemi and Sienna Miller. Trouble is, that's tough to do, especially in a movie that's so strongly rooted in contemporary reality. Buscemi directed and co-wrote the script, based on the film of the same name by the late Dutch director Theo van Gogh, about an interview that begins horribly and takes several unexpected twists over the course of a night.
While the performances are strong and a sense of claustrophobic tension builds, the premise ultimately feels just too implausible. "Interview" is the first of three English-language remakes of films by van Gogh, who was shot and stabbed to death in 2004 by a man who was angered by the way he depicted Islam in a TV movie. The next two come from Stanley Tucci and John Turturro.
It begins with the beautiful, blond Katya (Miller, vibrant and seductive as ever) showing up an hour late at a Manhattan restaurant to meet Pierre (Buscemi, marvelously cynical and scheming). He's a serious-minded political reporter who's been assigned to write a piece on her as punishment from his editor, and the reason he's in trouble comes out as one of many dramatic revelations during the strange evening they share. Pierre has done zero preparation for their talk, to which Katya justifiably takes offense.
He's more concerned about a scandal that's brewing back in Washington and has no interest in asking inane questions about her career as a pop star/soap actress/B-movie maven. Page 1 of 2 If you can suspend all disbelief — if you can accept the idea that a glamorous starlet would invite a pompous reporter into her home, get drunk with him, do coke in front of him and eventually make out with him — then maybe you can allow yourself to surrender to "Interview," a prolonged sparring match between Steve Buscemi and Sienna Miller.
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