Film

A Few Days In September (Quelques Jours En Septembre)

Cert: 15

Description: Awkward, unconvincing thriller with Juliette Binoche as a spymistress escorting two siblings to their ex-CIA father, Nick Nolte, with baddie John Turturro in hot pursuit.

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Dir: Santiago Amigorena.

Cast: John Turturro, Nick Nolte, Juliette Binoche, Sarah Forestier, Tom Riley

Country: Ita/Fr/Port.

Year: 2007.

Duration: 116mins

A pinch of poetry with your espionage

Lovely lech: Juliette Binoche

Penn becomes master

By Charlotte O'Sullivan
13 Sep 2007

This slick, fitfully effervescent, pre-9/11 thriller aims to inject some cross-cultural poetry into the world of political espionage.

Juliette Binoche and John Turturro - as two warring agents trying to track down an elusive "informer" called Elliot - resist the urge to compete with their zany lines and are lovely to watch (Binoche, cast against type as a lech, is especially good).

Still, A Few Days is haunted by superior "quest"epics such as The Third Man and Apocalypse Now.

When the gravelly-voiced man of mystery finally shows up, we realise what a goose chase this has been; a few hours in September, entertainingly wasted.