9º – The Firm (Sydney Pollack, 1993)
A young lawyer is given the opportunity to work for a large corporation. However, shortly after starting his new job, the young man will realize that the inside of the company was much more gloomy than he had thought. ‘The Firm’ raises an aura of tension from the first to the last minute of the film, bringing a Tom Cruise at his best.
8º – Night Moves (Arthur Penn, 1975)
A private investigator is hired by a woman whose teenage daughter had disappeared, having to fit into the intricacies of the girl’s mysterious disappearance. The film gains its substance when the man begins to face, as the investigation progresses, a degeneration of all of the apparatuses of his life, with his wife betraying him, his turbulent past returning to the surface, and his day to day more and more empty. A neglected masterpiece of the 1970s, ‘Night Moves’ is a film that impresses with the rigor of its irrefutable script, the productive direction of Arthur Penn and the powerful performance of Gene Hackman, working to investigate the dead end that is the life of a middle-aged man in his character’s situation.
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