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Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is a British film and stage director, producer, and screenwriter. In 2000, Mendes was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and he was knighted in the 2020 New Year Honours List. In 2000, Mendes was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg, Germany. In 2005, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of Great Britain. In 2008, The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 15 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture". Born in Berkshire to a Trinidadian Catholic father and an English Jewish mother, Mendes grew up in North London. He read English at Peterhouse at Cambridge University. He began directing plays there before joining Donmar Warehouse, a centre of 1990s London theatre culture. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1993), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003). For the first time, he directed an original West End stage musical with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013). For his work on the London stage, Mendes has received three Laurence Olivier Awards for Company, Twelfth Night, and The Ferryman. On Broadway, he earned two Tony Awards for Best Direction of a Play for The Ferryman in 2019 and The Lehman Trilogy in 2022. In film, he made his directorial debut with the drama American Beauty (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director. He has since directed the films Road to Perdition (2002), Jarhead (2005), Revolutionary Road (2008), and the James Bond films Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015). For the war film 1917 (2019), he received the BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, as well as his second Academy Award nomination for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Mendes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Clarice Starling is a young FBI agent who has fallen in disgrace after a failed mission where a partner of her died and many others were put in risk. The newpapers and the FBI itself apparently has forgot about her past heroism and actions that make her famous: Seven years ago, Clarice saved a senator's daughter who was almost murdered by a serial killer and to do that, she had to some interviews with another serial killer, the cannibal and doctor Hannibal Lecter, before this one escaped. When the agency is searching for Lecter again, Clarice has to make a interview with Mason Verger, who was almost killed by Lecter, apparently for information of where he could be; but it's a trap made by Verger to take a vengeance against the psychopath who is hidden in Italy and who has interest in Clarice herself. Now Clarice has to find Lecter and protect him besides of capture him before the Verger's men and the people interested in the reward that verger is offering (including inspector Pazzi of Florence and Krendell, Clarice's superior and principal enemy) do. Obviously, Hannibal Lecter isn't going to make them too easy and probably, they will fall in his own game
