Dot the i
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| Dot the i | |
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| Directed by | Matthew Parkhill |
| Produced by | George Duffield Meg Thomson |
| Written by | Matthew Parkhill |
| Starring | Gael García Bernal Natalia Verbeke James D'Arcy Tom Hardy |
| Music by | Javier Navarrete |
| Cinematography | Affonso Beato |
| Editing by | Jon Harris |
| Distributed by | Artisan Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | October 31, 2003 (Spain) |
| Running time | 92 min. |
| Country | England Spain USA |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Dot the i is a 2003 psychological thriller starring Gael García Bernal, Natalia Verbeke, and James D'Arcy. It was written and directed by Matthew Parkhill.
The story has been also remade in Hindi in the Indian film Shabd.
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[edit] Characters
The main characters include:
- Kit Winter (Bernal) - a Brazilian actor living in London, England.
- Carmen Colazzo (Verbeke) - a Spaniard who is engaged to Barnaby, but is attracted to Kit.
- Barnaby R. Caspian (D'Arcy) - an English film director who hires Kit.
[edit] Plot
Carmen goes to a French restaurant where she is invited to participate in a ceremony in which she is allowed to kiss a stranger of her choice before her marriage. The stranger she chooses is Kit and they both enjoy the kiss much more than either of them had intended to. They fall in love, which creates a love triangle between Carmen, Kit, and Barnaby. By the end of the film, it becomes apparent that the whole film was Barnaby's attempt at creating a hidden camera-based film about the deception of Carmen and that he hired Kit as part of the deception. What Barnaby did not count on was that Kit and Carmen actually do fall in love and decide to punish the manipulative Barnaby.
[edit] Reaction in the United States
Most American critics did not appreciate the bait and switch approach the film took calling its twist ending "implausible" and "gimmicky."[1] Even Roger Ebert, who was one of the few admirers of Dot the i, said of it "we walk out of the theater with perplexing questions about motives, means, access and techniques."[2] The film got an extremely limited release and only grossed about $300,000 in the United States.[3]
