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Damage

Fatale (Damage)

1992

Louis Malle

Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson, Rupert Graves ...

6.6

5,460

Drama. Romance A member of Parliament (Irons) falls passionately in love with his son's fiancée. They pursue their affair with obsessive abandon despite the dangers of discovery and what it would do to his complacent life and his son. Completely obsessed, he wants to give up his current lifestyle to be with her. She has no intention of allowing him to do this, preferring to have her marriage to the son as a cover. They are eventually discovered, and ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Matt Mueller Empire	"Walking a precarious line between stark, penetrating drama and pretentious twaddle, Louis Malle's terribly British vision of erotic obsession is alternately compelling and risible (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Watching this movie is like watching an emotional traffic accident as it unfolds. (...) One of those rare movies that is about sexuality, not sex (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"The movie may not always convince, but when it does it’s a cataclysmic peek into the erotic abyss"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Not even a film maker of Mr. Malle's intelligence and taste can make this stilted story add up"	NEG
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Its lurid soul may have more in common with Jackie Collins than Jane Austen, but its passionate nature and convincing performances can’t help but draw you in."	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Unjustly famous before its release for its hardly extraordinary erotic content, this veddy British-feeling drama from vet French director Louis Malle proves both compelling and borderline risible"	POS

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