The Comfort of Strangers [Region 2]
by Paul Schrader
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Actor: Christopher Walken, Helen Mirren, Manfredi Aliquo, Natasha Richardson, Rupert EverettDirector: Paul Schrader
Producer: Mario Cotone
Cinematographer: Dante Spinotti
Producer: Angelo Rizzoli Jr.
Producer: John Thompson
Producer: Linda Reisman
Writer: Harold Pinter
Writer: Ian McEwan
DVD: Region Code 2
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: PAL
Running Time: 107 minutes
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Movie Reviews of The Comfort of Strangers [Region 2]
Movie Review: Sexy, Erotic, Thriller
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this when it came out in the theater. After Natasha's death I bought the DVD (I worried about the Region 2 format even though I know full well I have a special player). Venice is glorious to see. I loved Natasha's hair & clothes. The shoes she wears when Colin draws the pictures are just wonderful. They were sexy & feminine yet made for walking, unlike the spike heels now.
Everyone who's spoken of this film thus far forget Helen Mirren. I really liked her in all of her oddnesses. I can't say enough about Christopher Walken. This was my first Walken film and I became hooked.
Colin & Marry go to Venice for the second time on vacation & to decide what to do with their relationship. They meet Robert seemingly by chance. He has horrific plans for them. Caroline, Robert's wife is confined to home because she can't manage stairs. Robert brings the couple home and the mystery unfolds.
Beautiful film, beautiful memory of Natasha.
Summary of The Comfort of Strangers [Region 2]
[NON-U.S. FORMAT (PAL) Region 2 U.K. Import - This will not play on U.S./Canada DVD players or those from most other countries outside of Europe. You would need a "multi-region" or "region-free" PAL compatible DVD player or computer.] SYNOPSIS: Adapted by Harold Pinter from Ian McEwan's novel, THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS follows a pair of indifferent lovers, Colin and Mary, who travel to the beautiful, romantic and mysterious Italian city of Venice to rekindle their love. As their emotionally icy relationship shows signs of thawing, the couple meets another duo: Robert and Caroline. Little do Colin and Mary realise, Robert and Caroline have been following them, with the most sinister plans in mind. To many, Venice is a city made for lovers, to McEwan's characters the location's romantic image simply disguises a forbidden world of dark sexuality and murder.Based on a creepy Ian McEwan novel, this Paul Schrader film stars Natasha Richardson and Rupert Everett as a married couple who find their marriage sliding into a morass of tedium. To reignite it, they visit Venice, where they fall under the spell of an urbane older couple, played by Christopher Walken (in one of his most chillingly insinuating roles) and Helen Mirren (who seems to be more his crippled acolyte than his wife). British reserve forces the younger couple to be polite to these strange birds, but increased exposure to them through coincidental meetings gradually pulls them into their deadly orbit. Adapted by Harold Pinter, it's a slightly arid but still goose-fleshy film in which nothing is what it seems to be and, what's worse, nothing familiar looks familiar anymore. --Marshall Fine
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