AMATEUR by Hal Hartley
1994
105 minute Rated R
Never piss off a mobster accountant ...............................Beware of French women armed with power tools
If you have never seen a Hal Hartley film, this is a great starting point. Martin Donovan wanders into a Manhattan diner, battered and amnesiac with a pocketful of Dutch Guilders. An ex-nun Isabelle Hubert interrupts her pornographic writings to tend to him. She takes him home and nurses him as the pieces start to emerge. It seems his ex wife Sophia ( Elina Lowensohn from Pulp Fiction) pushed him out a window. He was apparently her handler, drug provider, and producer of her porn movies. His name is Thomas and he is wanted by an international cartel of mobster accountants. It is all too tangled to describe and very engrossing. 1/99