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💎💎THE BUSINESS OF STRANGERS💎💎 – The Business of Strangers is a 2001 film that tells the story of an eventful night shared between a middle-aged businesswoman and her young assistant. The independent film was directed by Patrick Stettner; it stars Stockard Channing and Julia Stiles. Julie Styron (Channing) is a middle-aged businesswoman flying out of town to attend an important meeting. When her CEO contacts her and asks her to meet him for dinner afterward, she worries that her job may be in danger and engages the help of a headhunter named Nick Harris (Fred Weller) to look for a new position. Her mood worsens when her new assistant Paula Murphy (Stiles) is 45-minutse late to the meeting, which as a result goes badly. After its end, Julie fires Paula and they part ways. Later that evening, Julie is unexpectedly promoted to CEO of the company. After both their flights are delayed, Julie and Paula meet up by chance in a hotel bar. Julie apologizes for losing her temper earlier and buys Paula a drink. As they talk, Julie, who gave up having a family for her career, begins to question whether she made the right choice. The two of them visit the gym and the pool before returning to the bar. Nick joins them, explaining that his flight was also canceled. Paula rushes off to the bathroom and is followed by Julie, who wants to know what is wrong. Later, Paula informs her that Nick raped a friend of hers in Boston. Julie is shocked but eventually convinced and suggests they get revenge. Paula tells her to just forget about it. The two retire to Julie’s room and when Nick knocks on the door later on, Paula invites him in and then drugs hum. In order to keep him from realizing what they’ve done, the two women take him down into a restricted area of the hotel which is being renovated. Julie runs upstairs to get Nick’s briefcase and returns to find Paula stripping him. Paula explains that this way when he wakes up, he will hesitate to ask anyone what happened. Paula photographs them all with her Polaroid camera. Paula finds a magic marker and they write words on Nick’s chest and back like “pig” and “rapist.” They are nearly discovered by a security guard, but he leaves without seeing them. Paula eventually confesses to Julie that it was she who was raped, not her friend – which Julie had already guessed. They return to Julie’s room and sleep. The next morning, Julie finds the word “loser” written in marker on her own stomach and a few Polaroids on the bed of Paula sitting next to her own sleeping form. At the airport she meets up with Nick again. He reveals that he had never been to Boston, proving Paula’s rape story to be an elaborate lie.

Two businesswomen bond and reveal their inner natures while getting carried away on a revenge attack against an accused rapist. A dark thriller about a successful businesswoman and her young assistant who toy with a slow-witted businessman while stuck at an airport hotel. Two women on different ends of the spectrum of corporate power come together with explosive results in this drama. Julie Styron (Stockard Channing) is a successful executive with a major international corporation who is starting to feel the pressure of her position, she has few friends and no family to buffer her from the responsibilities of her work and she suspects that the company’s CEO is thinking about replacing her. Trying to get one step ahead, she meets with the slightly manipulative headhunter Nick Harris (Frederick Weller). Julie’s anxieties come to a head when she has to give a major out-of-town presentation without the help of her assistant Paula Murphy (Julia Stiles), who failed to show up on time. Furious, Julie gives Paula a severe dressing down before firing her, but then Julie is called into a meeting with Nick in which she gets some unexpected news – she’s going to be taking over his job. Eager to celebrate, Julie runs into Paula and tries to apologize for their earlier encounter by offering her a hotel room for the night and a few drinks. In time, Nick also turns up at the hotel and the women- upon running into him – realize that he is a mutual acquaintance. Later, Paula shares a secret with Julie – Nick raped one of her friends while they were in college and since then Paula has pondered taking revenge against him. Julie is eventually drawn into Paula’s plan when they encounter Nick later that evening. But there may be more to Paula than meets the eye. The Business of Strangers was the first feature from writer and director Patrick Stettner, the film was shown in competition at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.

Julie Styron (Stockard Channing) thinks she is going to be fired, but instead discovers that she is being promoted. Trapped in an airport, the two women get to know each other. They flirt, they drink, they lie, personal flaws are revealed and exposed. But at the end of the night their relationship turns and becomes a complex battle of power, authority and wit.

💎💎BRUSSELS BY NIGHT💎💎- Brussels By Night is a Belgian drama film from 1983, directed by former Humo journalist Marc Didden. The low budget picture was financed partly by Herman Schueremans, organizer of the Flemish rock festival Rock Werchter. The film was named after a 1979 song by Raymond van het Groenewoud, who also wrote the soundtrack for the movie. Brussels by Night was important in Belgian film history because its bleak, grey atmosphere and stream of consciousness structure were a sharp contrast with the more conventional films the country produced up to then. Brussels 1983. Max, an assassin, is seriously depressed. He tries to commit suicide by sticking a gun in his mouth, but when the gun jams he cries nevertheless, We follow him as he travels through Brussels without any goal and provokes everyone he meets. His mood changes at the most unpredictable moments. Max meets two people, Alice, a bar keeper and Abdel, her customer of Moroccan descent, who both fancy her as their mistress. The climax of the story takes place on the Ronquieres inclined plane. This is the story of a man who travels to Brussels and meets some people with whom he spends a few days. When they all go on a day trip to the “slanting plane” of Ronquieres, all sorts of bottled up frustrations flare up.

The unstoppable mood shifts of Max (Francois Beukelaers), a truck driver who has just put a gun to his mouth and fired an empty chamber, are evil enough throughout the film to indicate that all is not going be well, if it ever was. After his “gunplay,” Max takes a train to Brussels where he joins up with a barmaid, a streetcar driver and an od friend and proceeds to change from a good buddy to a cold, derisive stranger with no visible mental stability. Max has vainly tried to dial a phone number throughout the film and it is only after he loses it completely that the story reveals where he was phoning all that time.

💎💎BRIGHTON ROCK (2010)💎💎 – Brighton Rock is a 2010 British crime film loosely based on Graham Greene’s 1938 novel of the same name. Rowan Joffe wrote the screenplay and directed the film, which stars Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Serkis, John Hurt, Sean Harris and Helen Mirren. The novel was previously made into a film in 1948 by the Boulting Brothers under the same title. Although the novel and original film are both set in the 1930s, the 21 Century adaptation is set during the Mods and Rockers era of the 1960s. In 1964, Pinkie Brown, the sociopathic enforcer of a Brighton gang, murders Fred Hale, who has himself killed by the gang leader, Kite. Brown befriends Rose, a young waitress who witnessed the gang’s activity, to keep an eye on her. She falls in love with him. To prevent her from being compelled to give evidence against him, he marries her. Ida, Rose’s employer and a friend of Hale’s, takes it upon herself to save the girl from the monster she has married. Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie (Sam Riley), a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish. An adaptation of Graham Greene’s classic novel about a small-town hood who marries a waitress who deduced that he killed a rival thug in order to keep her quiet. As his gang begins to doubt his abilities, the man becomes more desperate and violent. While Mods and Rockers fight on the Brighton beaches in 1964, Pinkie Brown (Sam Riley), member of Spicer’s (Phil Davis’) protection racket gang, aims to wipe out his boss and take over the town from rival mobster Colleoni (Andy Serkis). Prior to the murder of Fred, one of Colleoni’s men, naïve waitress Rose Wilson (Andrea Risenborough) had been on the pier and inadvertently photographed Fred. Pinkie feigns courtship and marries Rose to keep her quiet, but Ida (Dame Helen Mirren), Rose’s employer and a friend of Fred’s, has her suspicions and makes it her business to save Rose from Pinkie’s clutches.

Screenwriter Rowan Joffe makes his feature directorial debut with this adaptation of author Graham Greene’s 1939 novel about an ambitious British gangster who will stop at nothing in his quest for ultimate power. Britain,1964: Pinkie (Sam Riley) is well on his way to becoming one of the most powerful figures in the British underworld when naïve waitress Roes (Andrea Riseborough) links him to a brutal murder. In order to ensure that Rose remains silent about the crime, Pinkie seduces her and begins tracking her every move. John Hurt, Andy Serkis, Sean Harris and Oscar winner Helen Mirren costar. Screenwriter Rowan Joffe’s debut feature Brighton Rock embraces the classic elements of film noir and the British gangster film to tell the story of Pinkie, a desperate youth who is hell bent on clawing is way up through the ranks of organized crime. When a young and very innocent waitress, Rose, stumbles on evidence linking him to a revenge killing, he sets out to seduce her to secure her silence. The film stars up-and-coming British actors Sam Riley and Andrea Riseborough as the young couple. Veterans Helen Mirren and John Hurt costar as two friends who set out to save Rose from Pinkie’s deviant designs. Brighton Rock is based on the iconic 1939 Graham Greene novel of innocence and evil but the action has been updated to 1964 Britain, the year of the Mods and the Rockers were rioting across the South Coast.