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Published: 13 September 2007

Venice provides the setting for the thriller A Few Days In September

Nolte means world to us!

A FEW DAYS IN SEPTEMBER
Directed by Santiago Amigorena
Certificate 15

IF you’re into conspiracy theories, here’s one for you. Shrouded in mystery, this suspense thriller features Nick Nolte as a top CIA agent named Elliot who surfaces in Venice 10 years after disappearing off the face of the earth. He had been holding crucial information on (wait for it) “the future of the world”, when he vanished,taking his secret with him.
Now his former mistress Irene (Juliette Binoche), a sophisticated French government agent, gets word that he urgently needs to see his two grown-up children (Sara Forestier, Tom Riley).
She sets up the meeting in Venice, unaware that a psychotic assassin (John Turturro) is on their heels, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake as he closes in.
Turturro gives a dark edge to the role as a neurotic killer who enjoys poetry and phones his analyst for reassurance when on assignments. We don’t see a lot of Nolte, but when we do he is a menacing figure in a Panama hat who still springs a few shocks when he materialises from nowhere.

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