Sin City (full title:
Frank Miller's Sin City)
[McDonagh, Maitland, Frank Miller's Sin City (review)] is an
ensemble cast U.S. action/
crime/
thriller film written, produced, and directed by
Frank Miller and
Robert Rodriguez. It is a
film noir based on Miller's
graphic novel series of the same name.
The film is primarily based on three of Miller's works:
The Hard Goodbye, about a man who embarks on a brutal rampage in search of his one-time sweet-heat's killer;
The Big Fat Kill, which focuses on a street war between a group of prostitutes and a group of mercenaries; and
That Yellow Bastard, which follows an aging police officer who protects a young woman from a grotesquely disfigured
serial killer. The movie stars
Bruce Willis,
Mickey Rourke,
Jessica Alba,
Clive Owen,
Michael Clarke Duncan,
Rosario Dawson,
Benicio del Toro,
Michael Madsen,
Nick Stahl,
Powers Boothe,
Josh Hartnett,
Jaime King,
Brittany Murphy,
Elijah Wood and
Rutger Hauer, among others.
Sin City opened to wide critical and commercial success, gathering particular recognition for the film's unique coloring procession, which rendered most of the film in black and white but retained or added coloring for select objects. The film was screened at the 2005
Cannes Film Festival in-competition and won the Technical Grand Prize for the film's "visual shaping".
[Cannes Film Festival awards report, IMDb.com]
