Interview (2007)

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MILLER TIME As a director, Buscemi brings out the best in his costar in Interview, a powerful adaptation of a work by slain Dutch filmmaker van Gogh

Any doubts as to whether Sienna Miller is a gifted actress should be laid to rest by Interview, a riveting two-hander, in which she plays an American model-actress being interviewed by a bitter, sarcastic worm of a journalist (Steve Buscemi). As they sit in her loft, getting drunker and more honest by the minute, Miller rips the scabs off a tabloid goddess' demons, as Buscemi simmers in the juice of self-loathing. He directed this remake, based on a film by the murdered Dutch director Theo van Gogh, and it's a fierce and resonant tribute. A-