The Key to Reserva
- December 14, 2007 (2007-12-14)
The Key to Reserva is a 2007 short film or long-form advertisement for Freixenet Cava champagne starring, written and directed by Martin Scorsese.
Plot
The film begins with framing device, wherein Scorsese, playing himself, describing how he discovered three and a half pages of an unproduced Alfred Hitchcock film, "The Key to Reserva". As part of this film preservation work he plans to film the script as Hitchcock would have filmed it.
The film, which contains no dialogue, shows Roger Thornberry (Simon Baker) arriving at a box seat during an orchestra performance. He sees a key hidden with the box's light bulb, and goes to retrieve it. He is noticed by one of the performers, Leonard, who signals to his accomplice Louis Bernard (Michael Stuhlbarg), who is holding Roger's wife Grace hostage in the audience. Leonard then goes to stop Roger. The two fight and Leonard falls from the box seat, presumably to his death. Roger uses the key to open a locked case which contains a bottle of Freixenet with top secret files hidden inside.
The film abruptly stops, as Scorsese explains that a page is missing, so he simply filmed the concluding paragraph of the script which shows Louis Bernard arrested, as Roger and his wife reunite over a glass of Freixenet.
Scorsese then discusses with the interviewer possible future projects. The camera pans back to reveal Scorsese, Thelma Schoonmaker, and the interviewer in an office in a tower block, meanwhile crows flock around the building.
Cast
- Simon Baker as Roger Thornberry
- Kelli O'Hara as Grace Thornberry
- Michael Stuhlbarg as Louis Bernard
- Christopher Denham as Leonard
- Ted Griffin as interviewer
- Martin Scorsese as himself
- Thelma Schoonmaker as herself
External links
- The Key to Reserva at IMDb
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- Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967)
- Boxcar Bertha (1972)
- Mean Streets (1973)
- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- New York, New York (1977)
- Raging Bull (1980)
- The King of Comedy (1982)
- After Hours (1985)
- The Color of Money (1986)
- The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
- Goodfellas (1990)
- Cape Fear (1991)
- The Age of Innocence (1993)
- Casino (1995)
- Kundun (1997)
- Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
- Gangs of New York (2002)
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- The Departed (2006)
- Shutter Island (2010)
- Hugo (2011)
- The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
- Silence (2016)
- The Irishman (2019)
- Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
- What's a Nice Girl like You Doing in a Place like This? (1963)
- It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964)
- The Big Shave (1967)
- "Bad" (1987)
- New York Stories (segment "Life Lessons", 1989)
- Made in Milan (1990)
- The Key to Reserva (2007)
- The Audition (2015)
- The Grifters (1990)
- Mad Dog and Glory (1993)
- Clockers (1995)
- The Hi-Lo Country (1998)
- The Young Victoria (2009)
- Maestro (2023)
- "Boardwalk Empire" (2010)
- Vinyl (2016)
- Pretend It's a City (2021)
- Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints (2024)
- An Afternoon with SCTV (TBA)
- Street Scenes 1970 (1970)
- Italianamerican (1974)
- American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince (1978)
- The Last Waltz (1978)
- A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995)
- My Voyage to Italy (1999)
- The Blues: Feel Like Going Home (2003)
- No Direction Home (2005)
- Shine a Light (2008)
- A Letter to Elia (2010)
- Public Speaking (2010)
- George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011)
- The 50 Year Argument (2014)
- Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019)
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- Sikelia Productions
- Goncharov
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