Bunny Lake Is Missing
by Otto Preminger
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Actor: Anna Massey, Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea, Laurence Olivier, Martita HuntDirector: Otto Preminger
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-01-25
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Bunny Lake Is Missing
Movie Review: Not your average psychological thriller
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw this film in a bad TV print 30 years ago. Despite the drawbacks of seeing it on a tiny set without the benefit even of pan-and-scan, it made an indelible impression on me. Yes, the holes in the plot and lapses of logic to which other reviewers allude looked obvious, and a major character's behavioral change in the last act seemed improbable. But I couldn't shake the film, and it stayed with me.
I was puzzled that a film with such apparent shortcomings could affect me so deeply. When I saw it again recently on TCM in a beautiful, crisp cinemascope print with the entire image, I was even more moved and began to ponder the paradox the picture presented.
After thinking about it for days, I decided that "Bunny Lake Is Missing" is mistakenly classified as a "psychological thriller." Think about three of its supporting characters: a crone who lives in an attic and listens to the disembodied voices of children describe their nightmares, an inebriated troll who propositions his female tenants, and an ancient dollmaker who lives in the center of a nocturnal labyrinth.
These aren't characters from a contemporary policier, but apparitions from the Brothers Grimm or Maurice Sendak. The viewer is in the territory of fairy tales, metaphors, dreams, and poetry in which the events and relationships are symbolically and emotionally, rather than realistically and analytically, linked.
This changed the nature of the film's narrative logic and therefore my perspective on the film.
In an unexpected way, it's more productive to think of "Bunny Lake Is Missing" as resembling "The Red Shoes" or "Black Narcissus," rather than other "psychological thrillers."
You won't find the villain in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, but you might find him in The Brothers Grimm.
I could go on at length, but rather than spoil the film, I urge you to watch it, but remember to resist filtering it through our expectations of the thriller genre. It exists apart from them and needs to viewed and accepted on its own terms. By the way, the Paul Glass score is unusually beautiful and memorable. I remembered it clearly after 30 years.
Summary of Bunny Lake Is Missing
When Ann Lake (Carol Lynley The Poseidon Adventure) goes to pick up four-year-old Bunny at her new preschool in London she s told that no child by that name is enrolled there! Superintendent Newhouse (Lawrence Olivier Hamlet Academy Award? Best Actor of 1948The Boys From Brazil) of Scotland Yard is assigned to the case. His suspects include: Steven Lake (Keir Dullea 2001: A Space Odyssey) the child s protective uncle; Horatio Wilson (Noel Coward The Italian Job 1969) the Lake s decadent landlord; and Aida Ford (Martita Hunt Anastasia) the school s eccentric ex-headmistress but he soon learns that no one has actually seen the child and there is absolutely no proof that Bunny ever existed! Ann maintains the child s been kidnapped but Newhouse begins to suspect that the hysterical young woman may just be insane.System Requirements:Running Time: 107 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating: NR UPC: 043396094666 Manufacturer No: 09466Drama DVD Video
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