Deception is a lean, well-crafted sex thriller with a polished European feel and a striking visual style courtesy of first time Swiss director Marcel Langenegger. It’s a quieter sort of thriller than we’ve become used to after so many Bourne flicks, but that doesn’t mean it’s boring.
To the contrary: there are plenty of thrills (and plenty of sex) packed into this briskly paced film, but at its core Deception is a character driven meditation on alienation in regimented world (The Metamorphosis, anyone?). Sure it’s as fizzy as a glass of champagne in most other ways, but who says entertainment can’t also be intellectually stimulating?
Ewan McGregor plays the nebbishy Jonathan McQuarry, an 18-hour a day workaholic accountant with no social life to speak of. He spends his evenings alone in glass buildings, staring out blankly from behind his laptop screen at the lighted streets of New York.
Langenegger creates visual metaphors for Jonathan’s ghost-like isolation, many of them lifted from Antonioni. In one scene Jonathan rides an elevator while two women chat about their sex life, blatantly unconscious to his presence. In another he is left stranded between two concrete pillars, just having had the subway doors slam in his face. – Read Deception Movie Review
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Maggie Q, Natasha Henstridge, Charlotte Rampling
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Too Much Sex Scenes Is Exhausting!
Ewan McGregor has been known to get his kit off regularly for his film roles, but even he says that the endless sex scenes in his new movie left him exhausted.
The Scottish actor – who plays a boring accountant who discovers a wild sex club in thriller Deception – spent days shooting steamy scenes with a host of beautiful naked women.
He is quoted by Britain’s Daily Express newspaper as saying: “I would be introduced to a girl, do sex scenes with her, go back to my dressing room, have some coffee, come back, then it’s ‘Hello, ‘I’m Ewan’ to another girl, clothes off and off we go again. “I’ve done my fair share of sex scenes in my career, believe me. But this was something else!”
McGregor – who married French production designer Eve Mavrakis in 1995 – also revealed he is worried the title of his new movie will stop fans from going to see it.
The 37-year-old star added: “Deception is just a horrible title. It sounds like a bad movie. So I think they have f***ed it up already.”
Deception, which also stars Hugh Jackman and Michelle Williams, opens worldwide from April 24.
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