Acquired this from Arrow Video on Blu-Ray a whim and I really dug it. Stormy Monday (1988) is only 95 minutes long but it moves slow, luxuriating in the neo-noir atmosphere it creates in Newcastle, England. Wet streets, neon signs and dime-store archetypes. Oh, and the quartet of lead actors are all looking incredibly foxy, particularly a young Sean Bean as the jazz-loving hunk who gets a job at a nightclub run by a dashing, rumpled Sting. Bean falls in love with the glamorous Melanie Griffith who works for shady businessman Tommy Lee Jones, keen to acquire Sting’s nightclub during a weekend celebrating all things American (satirical jabs against the era’s Reaganism). Mood first, story later as deals and double crosses transpire against ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ aesthetics. Music by writer-director Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas, Timecode). Recommended.
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