Twilight, co-written by director Robert Benton and Richard Russo, is a neo-noir thriller set in sun-burnt Los Angeles, featuring an ageing but still charismatic Paul Newman as a former private eye now enjoying life in the slow lane doing handyman work for an ex-movie star couple, played by Gene Hackman and Susan Sarandon. Of course, as fate would have it, his idyll is short-lived when the simple delivery of an envelope full of cash suddenly plunges him into a complex web of sex and blackmail, and a dark secret that reaches deep into his employers' murky past. A moody, atmospheric, compelling estimation of moral ambiguity, hubris and misplaced privilege.
