Mute
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Short description
Mute is set in a near-future Berlin, where Leo Beiler works as a bartender. Leo cannot speak, having lost the ability after an accident in his childhood, and his life revolves around his girlfriend Naadirah. When she vanishes without a trace, he goes looking for her and descends into the city's criminal underworld. There he encounters two American military surgeons, Cactus Bill and Duck Teddington, whose intentions toward him remain unclear as he tries to work out whether they can help him or whether he should avoid them altogether.
Duncan Jones directed the film, his fourth feature after Moon, Source Code and Warcraft, working from a screenplay he wrote with Michael Robert Johnson and Damon Peoples. Alexander Skarsgård plays Leo, with Paul Rudd and Justin Theroux as the two surgeons, Seyneb Saleh as Naadirah, and Robert Sheehan and Jannis Niewöhner in supporting roles. The production, a German-British collaboration involving Studio Babelsberg and Liberty Films with Stuart Fenegan producing, runs 126 minutes.
Audience response has been modest: on IMDb the film holds a rating of 5.5 from around 40,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 5.6 from just over a thousand votes. A critics' rating of 4.4 from 84 reviews places it below both audience measures.
What's left behind the scenes
- When Cactus goes to a strip club, the news shows Sam Bell, the protagonist of the science fiction film “Moon 2112” – Duncan Jones's full-length directorial debut.
- The film begins with an orchestral arrangement of Philip Glass's rendition of “Heroes,” written for David Bowie.
- Initially, it was planned to make a gangster film set in modern Britain. Then it was decided to move the action to Tokyo and cast Ken Watanabe in the lead role.
- At the beginning of the film, a photograph of the film's director, Duncan Jones, dressed in Amish clothing is shown.
- The character played by Paul Rudd uses a so-called Bowie knife, named after its inventor, a hero of the Texas Revolution, James “Jim” Bowie (1796-1836). The director Duncan Jones’ father took a stage name after the knife and became David Bowie.
- Before the end credits begin, a dedication appears on the screen. The director dedicated this film to the memory of his father, David Robert Jones, better known as David Bowie (1947-2016), and his beloved nanny, Marion Skinn.
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