He's very proud, he tells me, of Henry's Crime, which he shepherded for five years from conception to release. "Henry has no dream. He's gone along with his life. I feel that's a real story. Sometimes we just go along with things. With him, it stops being OK, and when he decides to rob the bank, he starts to live. It's preposterous, but hopefully it's delightful, too. To me, it's a really good afternoon film. I've had a couple of people come out after it and say, 'Wow, we saw your film and we just wanna go have sex now.' Maybe it just makes you wanna hold someone close. Of all the comments I've heard, that's my favourite." He's missing a trick, I tell him, if he doesn't plaster that quote all over the poster. "Yeah!" he laughs, warming to the idea. "'Watch Henry's Crime! Guaranteed sex! If your girl doesn't put out after this, we'll give you half your money back!'"

Reeves is a snug fit as Henry. His knack for playing the blank page, the human blur, has been mistaken in the past for stupidity or vacancy. Not at all. What he has is a singular Zen-like serenity, a stillness and poise, which can be just as hypnotic amidst the kinetic fury of Speed and The Matrix as it is in the more contemplative dreamscapes of Little Buddha or A Scanner Darkly. The misconception is partly Reeves's own fault.

http://www.lovefilm.com/interviews/Henry-s-Crime-Keanu-Reeves

Edit:

ITV's Daybreak interview with Keanu should be here but I get an error message. Can anyone else see it?

http://www.itv.com/daybreak/entertainment/film/whengrainnemeetkeanu/

Edit 2:

I really wanted to watch Keanu on BBC's The One Show, but it tells me it's not available "in your area". I guess that means only people in the UK can see this, then?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00xlwbc/The_One_Show_14_01_2011/

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Reeves is a snug fit as Henry. His knack for playing the blank page, the human blur, has been mistaken in the past for stupidity or vacancy. Not at all. What he has is a singular Zen-like serenity, a stillness and poise, which can be just as hypnotic amidst the kinetic fury of Speed and The Matrix as it is in the more contemplative dreamscapes of Little Buddha or A Scanner Darkly. The misconception is partly Reeves's own fault.

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Close description . . . very close . . .

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Keanu Reeves is brilliant in his restraint and in his dexterity especially in roles where he emerges from dispassionate stoicism and opens the emotional floodgates slowly with control and precision. His style, subtle, graceful yet bold and veracious lends itself perfectly to this character.

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. . . closer :p

There are 500 million uploads at this link (slight exaggeration maybe) so I don't know if K's is there - yet - or not, but might be worth watching for it to show up?

http://everyfilmin2011.blogspot.com/2011/01/22-henrys-crime.html?spref=tw

@Luca - eye of the beholder, indeed

Argh.

http://www.club-keanu.com/news/modules/webshow/singlelink.php?lid=355

http://www.capitalfm.com/london/

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=keanu+poland&aq=f

http://player.musicradio.com/capital/london/live