Now Playing: Trailer

2008

Narrative

English

92 min

The Caller

When you can’t control your life, control your death.

Now Playing: Trailer

2008

Narrative

English

92 min

The Caller

When you can’t control your life, control your death.

Synopsis

A corporate executive (Frank Langella) hides his identity as he hires a detective (Elliott Gould) to watch a man he describes as a cold-blooded killer. The detective soon meets the "sophisticated lady" of the man he has been paid to follow (Laura Harring). Unbeknownst to the detective, the man he has been hired to follow is also his client.

Director's Statement

THE CALLER (2008), my second feature film, was based on a screenplay of which most of it was written by Alain Didier-Weill (1939 - 2018), a French psychiatrist and a prominent Lacanian psychoanalyst who had done his analysis with Jacques Lacan and who became a close friend of mine. He was also a playwright whose works continue to be produced. The screenplay he showed me that became the origin of The Caller was the only one he ever attempted... Read More

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With A Hole in One, he showed a flare for using a strong, somewhat surreal visual style, but The Caller employs a more restrained and muted grace that heightens the underlying tension throughout. Frank Langella delivers an understated performance that subtly evokes all the complexities of his character. Gould is a natural complement to Langella, and along with Laura Harring (Mulholland Drive) as an exquisite femme fatale, the trio brings a natural sophistication to Ledes' and Alain Didier-Weill's sharp, labyrinthine script.

— David Kwok, One Small Heart

Frank Langella gives a note-perfect tour de force performance.

— Ronnie Scheib, Variety

Quietly compelling.

— New York Daily News

With A Hole in One, he showed a flare for using a strong, somewhat surreal visual style, but The Caller employs a more restrained and muted grace that heightens the underlying tension throughout. Frank Langella delivers an understated performance that subtly evokes all the complexities of his character. Gould is a natural complement to Langella, and along with Laura Harring (Mulholland Drive) as an exquisite femme fatale, the trio brings a natural sophistication to Ledes' and Alain Didier-Weill's sharp, labyrinthine script.

— David Kwok, One Small Heart

Quietly compelling.

— New York Daily News

Frank Langella gives a note-perfect tour de force performance.

— Ronnie Scheib, Variety

With A Hole in One, he showed a flare for using a strong, somewhat surreal visual style, but The Caller employs a more restrained and muted grace that heightens the underlying tension throughout. Frank Langella delivers an understated performance that subtly evokes all the complexities of his character. Gould is a natural complement to Langella, and along with Laura Harring (Mulholland Drive) as an exquisite femme fatale, the trio brings a natural sophistication to Ledes' and Alain Didier-Weill's sharp, labyrinthine script.

— David Kwok, One Small Heart

Frank Langella gives a note-perfect tour de force performance.

— Ronnie Scheib, Variety

Quietly compelling.

— New York Daily News