Suture (film)

Suture is a 1993 neonoir film directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel and stars Dennis Haysbert and Mel Harris. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.

Arlington survives, but requires facial reconstruction and also has lost most of his memory. Dr. Renee Descartes is there during his recovery. Towers resurfaces and tries once more to eliminate him, but is killed himself. Arlington makes a decision to make his new identity a permanent one.Scott McGehee and David Siegel had been working together since 1989. They had made two short films Birds Past and Speak Then Persephone in 1989 and 1990, respectively. Afterwards, they decided to make a featurelength film and attempted to construct a story that was generally about identity. McGehee has said that Suture was influenced by mid1960s Japanese films and Hollywood films like North by Northwest. Specifically, they were inspired by Hiroshi Teshigaharas The Face of Another and Yoshitaro Nomuras Tokyo Bay, which utilized widescreen black and white cinematography. They also wanted to give the film an early 60s sensibility and loved the widescreen black and white films from that period The Manchurian Candidate and Seconds. Siegel said, Its an absolutely gripping look thats used so rarely today, and its a look from a time period that we wanted to evoke. ........

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