Synopsis
The Follow (2001) is Wong Kar-wai's short film, available to watch online on iFILM. Eleven minutes from BMW's celebrated "The Hire" series, with Clive Owen as the silent Driver.
A jittery Hollywood manager hires the Driver for a delicate job: tail the wife of a paranoid actor, played by Mickey Rourke. Behind the wheel, the Driver calmly talks us through the craft of following someone through a city without being seen. Yet the longer the shadowing goes on, the more he dreads what he might learn about a stranger's unhappy life. Adriana Lima plays the wife, and Forest Whitaker turns up too.
Wong compresses his trademark melancholy into commercial length: the same wistful close-ups, the murmured voiceover, the sense of someone else's ache glimpsed from a distance. For fans of the director, it's a rare chance to catch his style inside an action short. Stream The Follow (2001) online on iFILM.
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