The Perfect Husband
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Actor: Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Ana Belén, Eliska Balzerová, Peter Firth, Tim RothDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-04-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Bfs Entertainment
Movie Reviews of The Perfect Husband
Movie Review: Not quite a masterpiece...
Summary: 4 Stars
One star away from being a masterpiece. Tim Roth was the least-convincing person in the film, playing a wealthy gigolo artist and sex-love addict whose trysts with married women gets him into endless duels with insulted husbands. That part was a tad corny for me. However, the music, the sets, the costumes and the basic Dostoevsky story were superb. I couldn't wait to see what luscious scene or hat or gown would show up next. My favorite was the flower-forest wallpaper at the spa.
Summary of The Perfect Husband
Based on a story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Perfect Husband is a suspenseful hybrid of tense psychological drama and period love triangle. Set in Prague in 1900, this emotionally inhibited roller coaster revolves around three friends who met at a spa seven years ago. Gifted musician Milan (Tim Roth) is an unabashed womanizer who wins over even the most difficult-to-conquer women and whose propensity for seduction has led to 29 duels and counting with their affronted husbands. Wealthy spa manager Franz (Peter Firth) is much harder to read. His always proper, button-down demeanor cloaks a surprisingly tumultuous, fiery inner nature--when a stranger on a train, reminding him that smoking is not allowed, takes his pipe and throws it out the window, he calmly throws her dog out the window, reminding her that animals are not allowed. Franz's wife, Therese (Ana Belén), becomes the third point on the triangle.The story begins when Franz appears unexpectedly at Milan's home. The action bounces between flashbacks that gradually reveal Milan's feverish affair with Franz's wife and Franz's current psychological manipulations that will reveal whether or not he knew about the affair and who his mysterious travel companion is. An enthralling period drama with an underlying air of mystery and psychological tension, The Perfect Husband is an erudite antidote to too much mindless television. The DVD also includes a scene index. --Tara Chace
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