The Night Porter (2-DVD) R
The Most Controversial Picture of Our Time!
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The Night Porter (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 58 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 9, 2014
- Originally Released: 1974
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Dirk Bogarde & Charlotte Rampling | |
| Performer: | Philippe Leroy, Isa Miranda & Gabriele Ferzetti | |
| Directed by | Liliana Cavani | |
| Edited by | Franco Arcalli | |
| Screenwriting by | Liliana Cavani | |
| Composition by | Daniele Paris | |
| Produced by | Esa De Simone & Robert Gordon Edwards | |
| Director of Photography: | Alfio Contini |
Entertainment Reviews:
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69%
Rating: 2/5 --
Not rich in plausability of plot or character development, but tonally interesting in places.
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Empire Magazine
People can read artistic significance into anything and lots of people have read gobs of it into this, but it is a silly movie with lots of perverse sex and no redeeming values, artistic or otherwise.
DVDLaser
A young Charlotte Rampling brings intelligence and sensitivity to her role...
Sight and Sound
3 stars out of 5 -- Cavani's of-its-time film recalls washed-out post-war thrillers like MARATHON MAN and Nic Roeg's icy flair.
Total Film
Morbidly fascinating work, choreographed from within a vacuum devoid of feeling and retribution, and spearheaded by a director who must find some sadistic pleasure in being such an exacting provocateur.
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Cinemaphile.org
Rating: 1.5/5 --
The movie's visual virtues are negated by infinite absurdities -- particularly by the sentimentality with which the director views this luckless couple.
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New York Times
A strange, brooding tale.
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Variety
Product Description:
Liliana Cavani's controversial film featured a breakout performance by the
American actress Charlotte Rampling in this Italian tour de force. Thirteen years after World War II, while working as a night porter in a Vienna hotel occupied by ex-Nazis, a former SS concentration camp officer, played by Dirk Bogarde, is astonished when a past victim-lover (Rampling), checks into the hotel with her husband. Despite the horrific nature of their former "relationship"--glimpsed in flashbacks of rape, torture and humiliation--their sadomasochistic sexual bond is soon rekindled. Eventually, the SS wants to eliminate the woman, as she is a witness to war crimes. THE NIGHT PORTER is not only an operatic and disturbing cult film that deftly examines the cruelty and decadence of Nazi culture, but an unconventional love story. Based on writer-director Liliana Cavani's interviews with an actual concentration camp survivor, THE NIGHT PORTER is one of the more controversial films of the 1970s, examining aspects of human interaction few works dare to touch.
American actress Charlotte Rampling in this Italian tour de force. Thirteen years after World War II, while working as a night porter in a Vienna hotel occupied by ex-Nazis, a former SS concentration camp officer, played by Dirk Bogarde, is astonished when a past victim-lover (Rampling), checks into the hotel with her husband. Despite the horrific nature of their former "relationship"--glimpsed in flashbacks of rape, torture and humiliation--their sadomasochistic sexual bond is soon rekindled. Eventually, the SS wants to eliminate the woman, as she is a witness to war crimes. THE NIGHT PORTER is not only an operatic and disturbing cult film that deftly examines the cruelty and decadence of Nazi culture, but an unconventional love story. Based on writer-director Liliana Cavani's interviews with an actual concentration camp survivor, THE NIGHT PORTER is one of the more controversial films of the 1970s, examining aspects of human interaction few works dare to touch.
Keywords:
Cult Film
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Psychodrama
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Racy
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Erotic
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Disturbing
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Nazis
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Theatrical Release
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Essential Cinema
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Product Info
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