Pitt and Cotillard Get Old-School Sexy in ‘Allied’
Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard swap accents and saliva in an old-school tribute to espionage thrillers.
Remember when spies used to be sexy? runs too fast for romance; he’s a chaste ninja for whom women are agents of grief, not objects of desire. You have to go back to 1975, to Faye Dunaway and Robert Redford in , to find intrigues of the state and the heart plotted as if they were the same thing. Or the stars of , shot by in 1946 in such enveloping close-up that all else—the Nazis, the uranium ore is about the atomic bomb, and all you get is blank stares. It’s about nibbling Ingrid Bergman’s ear.
