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Three Businessmen

UK 1998
produced by
Tod Davies for Exterminating Angel
directed by Alex Cox
starring Miguel Sandoval, Alex Cox, Robert Wisdom, Andrew Schofield, Isabel Ampudia, Chrstine Colvin, Adrian Henri, Adrian Kai, John McMartin, Masatoshi Nagase, Tomorowo Taguchi, Ryoko Takizawa
written by Tod Davies, music by Pray for Rain

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Two businessmen (Miguel Sandoval, Alex Cox) find themselves abandoned in the dining room of the hotel they are staying at, and since they are both hungry, they decide to join forces and go out for a bite of food in a town, Liverpool, none of them is familiar with. But while they wander about town, talking about everything - computers, the internet, cellphones, pagers, credit cards - and nothing at the same time, they seem to be unable to find even one spot that would serve them food (or at least food both of them would appreciate). Plus, using public transport, they more and more lose their way, and without knowing it, they suddenly find themselves first in Rotterdam, then in Hong Kong and finally Tokyo - but still they are trying to find their way on the Liverpool-map.

Ultimately, the two take a cab back to their hotel, but the cab leaves them stranded out in the desert, where they meet a third businessmen (Robert Wisdom), who got lost somewhere completely else while trying to buy a toy for his little son. When talking, the three realize they are all carrying the word King in their name, even if in different languages.

Finally the three businessmen reach a desert town where they are actually served some food at Josefina#s (Isabel Ampudia) place - and where they also stuble upon a little baby, and overcome by emotion, they give the little boy presents ... and for a moment there, they feel like the three kings giving presents to baby Jesus. It is only then that they find their way again (or at least think they do).

 


Very probably not Alex Cox' best movie - but also very probably his most interesting, most unusual: In a way, Three Businessmen is a film that simply defies description, it totally abandons really telling a linear plot, and it's mainly a film about two guys talking without really saying anything or without carrying a message - and somehow, Miguel Sandoval and Alex Cox are quite amusing at that, they come across as likeable flawed characters, even if we don't get as much as basic information about their backgrounds and couldn't care less about their conversations. Also, the fact that they are travelling half the globe without even noticing it gives the film a surreal dimension, even though Cox (as a director) avoids to present us with any surrealistic elements apart from the basic storyline. And somehow, the film comes across as a clever comedy, not one of the laughing-out-loud variety, but one that keeps you amused throughout, and that you'll fondly remember even years later. Worth a look at least.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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