In the fourteen years
between Sexy Beast and Under the Skin, Glazer only made one film, a curious, bizarre little work starring Nicole Kidman and Danny Huston called Birth.
Not exact matches
Like «Beauty and the
Beast,» the ugly creature is
sexier than the nice prince, which is where Irene, who's caught
between them, comes in.
My guess is that Johnathan Glazer has had some kind of breakdown in the interim
between «
Sexy Beast» and this personal hell..
From visionary director Jonathan Glazer (
Sexy Beast, Birth) comes a stunning career transformation, a masterpiece of existential science fiction that journeys to the heart of what it means to be human, extraterrestrial — or something in
between.
Lodged somewhere
between Ben Kingsley's prestige projects and his penchant for crude comedy,
Sexy Beast casts the veteran actor as Don Logan, a bona fide sociopath who ultimately forces retired ex-con Gal (Ray Winstone) to take part in a sketchy London heist.
It was
between making
Sexy Beast and Birth that Glazer first read Faber's novel, and he immediately realised that it would be his next project.