MOVIE REVIEW: Anton Corbijn’s The American a beautiful but disappointing adaptation of A Very Private Gentleman
If you’ve read Martin Booth’s decadent novel A Very Private Gentleman, George Clooney seems like perfect casting of the dubious main character for the film adaptation The American (which opened at the #1 spot over Labor Day Weekend). Unfortunately the screenplay (by Rowan Joffe) and style fail the book’s rich potential, and Clooney loses his…