The opening night film at the Seattle International Film Festival will be IFC’s In the Loop, a film I saw at the press launch for the Festival about two weeks ago. This is a film everyone will need to see more than once because you and the audience will be laughing so hard you will have no chance at catching all of the jokes. This is, without a doubt, one of the funniest films I have ever seen.
In the Loop is a political farce poking fun at both British and American government in the midst of of a potential war, not to mention the possible collapse of a brick wall that could destroy an old woman’s green house putting her life in immediate danger. It is quite possibly the most vulgar film I have ever seen, but every curse word is used as another punchline, or it just gets darkly real such as when James Gandolfini playing U.S. General Miller says, “At the end of the war you have to have some soliders left or else people think you lost.”
Check out the trailer below as well as a not safe for work clip directly below that, and just trust me, this is a film you are going to want to see. In the Loop hits theaters on July 24.
