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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9786305161950
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 630516195X
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 17, 1998
Running Time: 112 minutes
Sales Rank: 13907
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 22, 1993
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A middle-aged man and his sons fiancee are entangled in an intensely erotic affiar that is as irresistible as it is destructive. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 07/20/2004 Starring: Jeremy Irons Miranda Richardson Run time: 112 minutes Rating: R/ur Director: Louis Malle
Amazon.com:
The fascination of watching Damage is similar to the fascination of watching a car crash in progress--you know something unpleasant is going to happen, but your attention is riveted to the scene of destruction. In the case of this acclaimed drama, adapted by playwright David Hare from the novel by Josephine Hart, the destruction results from a collision of sexual attraction between a British governmental official (Jeremy Irons) and his son's fiancée (Juliette Binoche). Blind to the damage they'll cause to others and themselves, they begin an obsessive affair based purely on impulsive attraction and the hidden emotions that feed into their immediate physical desires. As you could expect, this leads to emotional fallout for everyone concerned, lending multiple interpretations to the film's title and allowing Miranda Richardson (as Irons's wife) to give a brilliant performance drawn from raw anger and betrayal. Under the direction of Louis Malle, this forceful drama never resorts to sordid detail or gratuitous titillation. Rather, Malle and his esteemed cast have explored the ways in which the power of sexuality supercedes the rationality of logic, when mutual attraction is stronger than one's ability to resist temptation. Damage makes it clear that such an indulgence will always come at considerable cost. The DVD of this fine film includes a behind-the-scenes featurette and the original theatrical trailer. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating:  - Emotionally captivating with brilliant performances by Irons, Binoche and Richardson
[BEWARE SPOILERS]
I don't know whether I've ever watched a film in which I identified more with all the characters than I did in this emotionally wrenching masterwork from the late, great Louis Malle. It is part of the genius of Malle to, like Shakespeare, make every character real and to see and present the depth of even those slightly off stage.
I could begin with the youngest, the daughter Sally (Gemma Clarke) who says little and is always at a slight distance, her serious face in the backseat of the car seemingly thinking dark thoughts, her face down the hallway at night, seemingly knowing that her father has committed adultery with her brother's fiancée--yet not knowing. Louis Malle wanted a certain expression on her face; he wanted the primeval depth of her character as a being that knows more than it knows to be etched upon the screen. And this is because what she knows and doesn't know is what we all know and don't tell ourselves, namely that there is a part of our nature that is not under our control, a part of our nature that can cause not just damage, but disaster. And we are helpless to even see it coming let alone stop it.
In the wife, played with precision and finesse by Miranda Richardson, we see a complex and open person who expresses herself with subtle incisiveness in little gestures and poignant pauses, but then when it all comes crashing down, she speaks with the power of cold steel cutting into flesh.
Juliette Binoche's ... Read More
Rating:  - SOMETHING IS MISSING
In the beginning the sons girl friend of a short time just happens to go meet the sons father on her own, then stares at him in a intense way, very deranged scene, where is the plot???. I gave this movie
3 stars because the actors were so good.
Rating: - deep, shocking.....
Every time I watch a movie that is based on a book, I can't help but thinking that it just can't be fair to the book itself. There will always be a way or another to minimize either the story or the characters. Based on the book by Josephine Hart, this movie is actually enhancing the book in so many ways.
I saw the movie 14 years ago, when it was heavily criticized for the sexual scenes, the nudity, and the lack of dialogue. I loved it then and I come to love it even more now.
In the book, the focus was on the emotional struggle that the main male character (Stephen Fleming) was going through. He lived all of his life being the good family man, good provider, simply playing it safe by the rules, until he meets Anna, the mysterious girl friend of his son. That's when he looses control and gets torn apart between his strong desire to have that woman and his sincere love to his kids.
Anna would strike you as the cold, mysterious, kind of evil person who might have some emotional side to her, but it's focused on her selfishness and total consumption into her own emotional damage.
Now, when Jeremy Irons is playing Stephen, and Juliette Binoche is playing Anna, the story was taken to a different level, where dialogue is not needed much to show the development of the characters.
Binoche with the short hair cut, innocent yet very pretty face, and piercing looks is definitely making Anna the irresistible, mysterious, semi evil woman.
Irons simply can show ... Read More
Rating: - Better in a theater, but a good film
T. Rafferty's bitchy New Yorker review reminds me why I hate New York pretentiousness amongst critics who watch and grieve from their self-appointed piss-elegant armchairs, and why Amazon would give him the space to relieve himself here is beyond me.
DAMAGE is a slow film, and, indeed, the cold sterility of its upper class characters plays better in a big theater than on DVD. It remains engaging due to the solid performances, and the troubling theme of 'special love' being quite so dangerous as to seduce even restrained humans into doing the most reprehensible and irresponsible things to each other.
Pray you don't meet your Anna. I did, and I escaped with only hurting myself.
Rating:  - Sickness + Sickness + Sickness +.......
The English.....What can you expect from them??......Sickness.....i think incest is in their blood.....They are shameless
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