✅ To me, as an avid fan of his since Birdy, Cage’s performance still looks as if from another world.
✅ Incredibly, Shue—much less experienced—matches his performance in every scene.
✅ The 16mm handheld and the dreamy jazz score progressively intensify the feeling of drowning.
Everything, the plot, the characters, the on-location shoots, feel less real than hyperreal, perhaps in the Baudrillardian sense.
Leaving Las Vegas by Mike Figgis, 1995.
Watched at the Bambi theater on May 20, 2026, in its original language.