Hal Hartley directed Isabelle Huppert, Martin Donovan and Elina Löwensohn in this indie thriller where a nymphomaniac ex-nun picks up a man with amnesia in a New York diner.

My friend and lovely comedian Martin Croser used to send me unsolicited packages. Out of the blue a DVD copy of some arthouse forgotten film would pop through my letterbox. It was a lovely treat. And I am slowly working through them. Amateur was one of them, a flick I remember enjoying when it came out on VHS. You have Elina Löwensohn and Huppert being sexy as fuck, a plot about pornography and espionage told in a low-fi slacker way. It is a bit like if Jim Jarmusch made a Jason Bourne adaptation and got super horny. There’s a young Parker Posey in an early role, always welcome. The first hour is far better than the second. In fact… this feels like the palpable gearshift from Hartley’s better quirky romance dramas to his oblique actionless spy thrillers.

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Perfect Double Bill: Flirt (1995)

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