(105 min, 2010)Director: Anton Corbijn
Writers: Rowan Joffe (screenplay), Martin Booth (novel)
Stars: George Clooney, Paolo Bonacelli and Violante Placido
Alone.
Alone among assassins, Jack (George Clooney) is a master craftsman. When a job in Sweden ends more harshly than expected for this American abroad, he vows to his contact Pavel that his next assignment will be his last. Jack reports to the Italian countryside, where he holes up in a small town and starts constructing weapon for another assassin.
We meet Jack (or Edward) as he sits in the house with a naked woman. He has serious expression, he looks very sullen and detached. And that is how he will remain for most of the movie. He is a professional, he doesn't really have a life apart from his job, he doesn't have any friends. For his new assignment, he is sent to Italy. All he does there is drinking coffee, working out, hanging out with a priest who took an interest in him, visiting a brothel where he has sex with a prostitute named Clara and constructing weapon for Mathilde (Thekla Reuten) which is his new assignment.
