Damage
1993VOTE NOW
| Majestic Films International | Release Date: January 22, 1993 |
Starring:
Gemma Clarke, Ian Bannen, Jeremy Irons, Julian Fellowes, Juliette Binoche, Leslie Caron, Miranda Richardson, Peter Stormare, Rupert Graves, Tony Doyle
Summary:
A member of Parliament falls passionately in love with his son's fiancée despite the dangers of discovery.
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If you let it, Damage can be an exhilarating and a devastating leap into the realm of erotic obsession. [22 Jan 1993, p.8]
It's the versatile Miranda Richardson (the terrorist in ''The Crying Game,'' the repressed housewife in ''Enchanted April'') who gets the juiciest scene. Shattered by the news of the affair, and by the tragedy it precipitates, she beats her face with a knotted towel, and then vents her rage on her foolish husband...It's one more triumph for an actress who has no trouble channeling a kind of supernatural intensity in her work. If anyone's looking for the perfect Lady Macbeth, they needn't look any further. [22 Jan 1993, p.D1]
Damage brings to mind Last Tango in Paris, although Malle's elegant, precise direction is drastically different from Bertolucci's work, a film that celebrates the loss of inhibition and control. Although relentlessly somber, Damage offers a perverse humor in the idea of father-and-son rivalry over the same woman: it's like the Oedipus complex in reverse.
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Despite numerous faults, Damage is still a worthwhile motion picture. It presents a stark depiction of a man on the edge who is driven to act by needs he can neither understand nor control, and the pain that such an obsession can cause. There's a lot here, just not as much as there could have been.
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"Damage" is a fruit bowl reduced to a raisin. [22 Jan 1993, p.B]
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