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A couple retreat to Venice to work on their relationship, but an encounter with a stranger leads them into a world of intrigue - where their darkest desires are in reach.A couple retreat to Venice to work on their relationship, but an encounter with a stranger leads them into a world of intrigue - where their darkest desires are in reach.A couple retreat to Venice to work on their relationship, but an encounter with a stranger leads them into a world of intrigue - where their darkest desires are in reach.
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Fabrizio Sergenti Castellani
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Did you know
- TriviaChristopher Walken said in an interview that he kept the clothes he wore in this movie designed by Georgio Armani.
- Alternate versionsRupert Everett gets second billing over Natasha Richardson on the opening credits of international prints while Richardson gets billing above Everett on American prints.
- SoundtracksAmorevole
Written by Pino Massara, Vito Pallavicini and Vittorio Buffoli
Performed by Nicola Arigliano
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Wrong Place, Wrong Time
So much is written in Hollywood about a character's redemptive arc'-it is rare that anything redemptive crosses our path in a Paul Schrader movie, and we wouldn't want it any other way.
Let's talk about real life, life ala Schrader and Pinter---rarely redemptive, where a dismantled woman (Natasha Richardson) in her late twenties, divorced, burdened with child and confusion, looking ahead to 40 years of loneliness, seeks solace in one of the few options left available to her: the younger, good-looking, yet far too effeminate suitor (Rupert Everett).
Their pairing, unsettling at most every juncture, can only be upstaged by a spectacular Chris Walken performance as Robert, a predator of confusing lineage who smells blood in the water faster than OJ can smell the first tee.
It is the character Robert on whom the SNL parody `The Continental' is likely based, and Walken plays him so flawlessly that we may sometimes believe he has something but the basest on his mind, which of course, he has not.
Helen Mirren is perfect as Robert's co-dependent compadre.
Ignorance is never bliss in this day and age, and our story of a young couple indeed destined to suffer the consequences of their needless existence twists and turns tautly in their ill-timed venture to Venice.
Looking for fun? Next time, kids, try Disneyland.
Let's talk about real life, life ala Schrader and Pinter---rarely redemptive, where a dismantled woman (Natasha Richardson) in her late twenties, divorced, burdened with child and confusion, looking ahead to 40 years of loneliness, seeks solace in one of the few options left available to her: the younger, good-looking, yet far too effeminate suitor (Rupert Everett).
Their pairing, unsettling at most every juncture, can only be upstaged by a spectacular Chris Walken performance as Robert, a predator of confusing lineage who smells blood in the water faster than OJ can smell the first tee.
It is the character Robert on whom the SNL parody `The Continental' is likely based, and Walken plays him so flawlessly that we may sometimes believe he has something but the basest on his mind, which of course, he has not.
Helen Mirren is perfect as Robert's co-dependent compadre.
Ignorance is never bliss in this day and age, and our story of a young couple indeed destined to suffer the consequences of their needless existence twists and turns tautly in their ill-timed venture to Venice.
Looking for fun? Next time, kids, try Disneyland.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,244,381
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $14,537
- Mar 17, 1991
- Gross worldwide
- $1,244,381
- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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