We have been here before. Hard-boiled private detective Philip Marlowe (Liam Neeson) is hired by a gorgeous dame, Clare Cavendish (Diane Kruger), to track down her lover Nico, who faked his death in a gory display of roadkill outside the Corbata Club, a den of iniquity behind closed doors.
Based on a noirish novel by Booker prize winner John Banville, The Black-Eyed Blonde, which was written under the pen name Benjamin Black in the style of Raymond Chandler, the film is directed by Neil Jordan, whose brilliant career includes The Crying Game (1992) and the extraordinary Breakfast on Pluto (2005) with a young Cillian Murphy.
