Sexy Beast

Director: Jonathan Glazer

2000 / 89min / 35mm

Retired gangster Gary “Gal” Dove (Ray Winstone) has put away his safecracker’s tools for an early retirement at the Spanish seaside—or so he thinks, until old associate Don Logan (Ben Kingsley), a snarling, violent lunatic whose career in the London underworld is the stuff of blood-soaked legend, shows up to recruit Gal to take one last job back home. Glazer’s feature debut, which came after several years of directing commercials and music videos, is a crackling, energetic, and morbidly funny crime thriller that soars above the pack thanks to the indelible central performances by Winstone and Kingsley, as well as supporting work by Amanda Redman and Ian McShane.

Part of Euro-Heists