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Hanna

United Kingdom, United States, Germany

2011

111 Min
Color
2.40:1
English, French, German, Italian, Arabic, Spanish
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DIR Joe Wright

EXEC Barbara A. Hall

PROD Marty Adelstein, Leslie Holleran, Scott Nemes

SCR David Farr, Seth Lochhead, Joe Penhall, Joe Wright

DP Alwin H. Kuchler

CAST Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana, Tom Hollander, Olivia Williams, Paris Arrowsmith, Jason Flemyng, John MacMillan, Álvaro Cervantes

ED Paul Tothill

PROD DES Sarah Greenwood

MUSIC The Chemical Brothers

Karlovy Vary (Midnight)

Synopsis

Hanna (Ronan) is a teenage girl. Uniquely, she has the strength, the stamina, and the smarts of a solider; these come from being raised by her father (Bana), an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland. Living a life unlike any other teenager, her upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin. The turning point in her adolescence is a sharp one; sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys stealthily across Europe while eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative with secrets of her own (Ms. Blanchett). As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity. —Focus Features

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Joe Wright

An English director adept in adapting literary drama and giving it a breathtaking, cinematic pulse – made all the more surprising because of his battle with dyslexia in his youth – Joe Wright broke out of British television with his critically acclaimed and award nominated take on the Jane Austen classic, “Pride and Prejudice” (2005). Praised for his insistence on a sense of movement and realism in a genre long considered stuffy and reserved, Wright continued his success in adapting period source material with “Atonement” (2007), a sweeping epic based on the award-winning novel by British contemporary Ian McEwan. Wright was quickly embraced by critics after the film’s triumphant debut at the 2007 Venice International Film Festival, marking the young director as an emerging talent of the highest caliber.

Wright was born in 1972 in London, England. He grew up in a creative household – his parents founded a puppet company called The Little Angel Theatre. Wright always kept his eye… read more

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Jason Callen

23May13

The incongruities of the script just make it laughable at a certain point. A good shot here and there and some excitement on the soundtrack can't make up for lazy screenwriting.

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SammyTodd

12Apr13

Kind of your typical badass-chick movie, vastly overdone. Interesting use of the family she travels with, though (adds a more...relatable/human experience to the plot?). Love love loved the soundtrack, probably my favourite part of the film. Also had some great artsy shots (ex. her escape, running through the slitted tunnel).

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Adrian

16Feb13

Incoherent and badly executed. Altering different styles and cultures made it feel messy, like it doesn't really know where it's going. It also obstructs the film from developing its own, solid atmosphere. The action sequences where lazy, uninspired -and so was the climax- and left me unsatisfied. The good acting couldn't save it, and the plot holes and terrible editing just helped it for me to dislike it even more.

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DUTCH

21Jan13

I feel like half of the cast may had to be in on the campier aspects, at the very least Tom Hollander as a Eurotrash gentleman who seems more fit for the Nihilists in The Big Lebowski seemed most aware. But it is nonetheless a very enjoyable, cheeky, action B-movie with an ace score by The Chemical Brothers. Ronan's compelling and Blanchett is in a role that drag queens should study. Beautiful if obvious imagery.

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"Meek's Cutoff," "Hanna," "Blue Collar," More

By David Hudson on April 8, 2011

"A movie out of time and yet distinctly of ours as well, Meek's Cutoff appears in theaters as if in rebuke to our current cinema," begins Elbert

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HANNA- BLURAY and DIGITAL COPY totally rocks!

By Twitchfilm.com on December 17, 2011
This is one outstanding looking Bluray. More importantly, this is one dynamic fun to watch provocative piece of cinema. Hanna is like an updated better version of D.A.R.Y.L. (1985) which was a fun movie
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SFF 2011 - HANNA review

By Twitchfilm.com on December 16, 2011
The Sydney Film Festival brings the best new films from around the world right to the audiences of Sydney. It runs from 8-19th of June and is one of Sydney’s biggest annual events.A sixteen year old is
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Joe Wright, Eric Bana And Saoirse Ronan Talk HANNA

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
Our thanks to Diva Velez, who reports back from the New York junket and red carpet of Joe Wright’s Hanna. Local journalists were given very little time in the round tables for the film but, true to form
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Weinberg Reviews HANNA

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
Strong women are nothing new, of course, unless you’re talking about “disproportionately strong women in Hollywood flicks,” in which case they are sort of new. What somehow began with Charlie’s Angels
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HANNA Review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
If you had asked me a year ago if Joe Wright (Atonement, The Soloist) could make a more convincing and interesting action-thriller than Philip Noyce (Dead Calm), I might have laughed at you and very likely
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HANNA and the Top 5 Pint-Sized Killers of the Past 5 Years

By Twitchfilm.com on May 4, 2011
To call Hanna far superior to Sucker Punch is to damn Hanna with faint praise. Coming from director Joe Wright, who make the good-looking but dramatically unsatisfying Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, and
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Joe Wright Gets All Genre On Yer Ass: HANNA Trailer

By Twitchfilm.com on April 29, 2011
It’s been a while since we last heard anything on Atonement director Joe Wright’s latest project about a young assassin played by Saoirse Ronan, but now we’ve got a full blown trailer for Hanna and it’s…
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UK Trailer For Teen Assassin Film HANNA Brings The Good Stuff.

By Twitchfilm.com on April 29, 2011
My honest reaction to the first trailer for Joe Wright’s Hanna? Meh. About what I expected from an arthouse director trying to do action.But the new UK trailer? That’s a different story. And suddenly it’s
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in bocco al lupo

By Rev'ren​d Greene on January 30, 2013

You know when people say stuff like “I’ve got more datdada in my little datdada than you have in your entire datdada”? Well, Hanna has more style and grit in single sequences than most movies…  read review

Hanna n'a pas de soeur et c'est mieux ainsi

By Benoît on February 17, 2012

Quand le réalisateur d’Orgueils & Préjugés, Le soliste ou encore Reviens-moi décide de prendre un virage totalement inattendu dans sa carrière et de délaisser la romance pour le film d’action…  read review

Bourne identity goes girl powrrr

By Henrik Schunk on January 13, 2012

Bourne Idenity goes female. That is what everybody will tell you when you watch this film and is think they are right. Of course, the director flexes his talent every now and then and some shots are…  read review

I Just Missed Your Heart

By Brian Conway on September 11, 2011

A spy caper, revenge flick and modern fairytale all rolled into one, Hanna is a spiritual cousin to such espionage/hitman greats as The Professional or the Bourne trilogy only Hanna distinguishes itself…  read review

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ANYBODY SEE IT?

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