The comfort of strangers / Angelo Rizzoli presents ; an Erre Produzioni, Sovereign Pictures production ; in association with Reteitalia s.p.a. ; a film by Paul Schrader ; screenplay by Harold Pinter ; produced by Angelo Rizzoli ; directed by Paul Schrader.
Edition:
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.
Container of (work): Comfort of strangers (Motion picture)
Notes:
Rupert Everett, Helen Mirren, Natasha Richardson, Christopher Walken. Title and credits from screen. Originally released as a motion picture in 1990. Based on the novel by Ian McEwan. Wide screen (1.66:1 aspect ratio). Bonus features: new interviews with Spinotti, director Paul Schrader, actor Christopher Walken and editor Bill Pankow; interviews from 1981 and 2001 with novelist Ian McEwan and actor Natasha Richardson; trailers.
Summary:
Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson are the prey, a beautiful British couple working on their relationship while on holiday in Venice; Christopher Walken and Helen Mirren are the hunters who draw them into the sinister web of their opulent, old-world palazzo. What plays out is an unsettling, sadomasochistic seduction imbued with an atmosphere of sumptuous dread.
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