‘Diamond’ Review: Andy Garcia Writes, Directs & Stars In Clever And Entertaining Contemporary Homage To Film Noir – Cannes Film Festival

You think you know what Andy Garcia‘s Diamond is going to be right from the opening scenes as we meet ’40s style, fedora-wearing private eye Joe Diamond (Garcia), who looks, talks and walks like he is in a film noir, the kind of B&W Bogart and Mitchum regularly gravitated to. He’s all business in his aging L.A. office with his secretary, Elizabeth (LaTanya Richardson Jackson), but as he emerges into the daylight to his 1940s convertible, a Waymo drives right by in front of him. Suddenly Diamond has fooled us.

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