Movie: The Limits of Control (2009)

• Director: Jim Jarmusch
• Release Date: 17 September 2009 (Hong Kong)
• Run Time: 116 min
• Country: USA , Japan
• Genre: Crime , Drama , Mystery , Thriller  
• MPAA: Rated R for graphic nudity and some language.

Tagline: For every way in, there is another way out.

Trivia: Isaach De Bankolé exchanges matchboxes throughout the film with ‘Le Boxeur’ (The Boxer) written on them, the name of his character in his other film White Material (2009).
 

Goofs: Factual errors: When the Lone Man travels from Madrid to Sevilla, he enters a S 100 AVE train set. But the interior shots are clearly done in a S 103 (Velaro E), a totally different – and much newer – type of train.
 

“A solitary man who does not speak Spanish is an underground courier. Two men who are both thuggish and philosophical send him to Madrid with cryptic instructions. Over the course of a few days, he receives his instructions from a series of distinctive individuals who provide words of philosophy or of warning and also give him a matchbox with a tiny piece of paper, which he reads then eats, accompanied by espresso served in two cups. He is quiet, self-contained, focused on his work. He has rules. He encounters and at times transmits a violin, diamonds, a guitar, and a map. Is he a smuggler? Merely an independent conduit? Or, something else? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>”