Discover
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Peter Greenaway
Director -
Jean-Paul Gaultier
Costume Design -
Michael Nyman
Original Music Composer -
Jan Roelfs
Production Design -
Nigel Heath
Sound Effects -
Daniel Toscan du Plantier
Co-Producer -
Pascale Dauman
Co-Producer -
Sharon Howard-Field
Casting
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talisencrw 6/23/2021 3:57:47 PM
Having previously watched Greenaway's 'Prospero's Books', basically from the same era, one definitely gets a sense of the auteur, of great visualizing prowess in the Welsh native. I adore watching Helen Mirren from ANY era, but particularly here, in between the young adulthood beauty she displayed in Michael Powell's 'Age of Consent', through the remarkably absurd and audacious 'Caligula', straight to the sophisticated and very dangerous gorgeousness displayed in 'The Comfort of Strangers'. It's great to see any dude who's mean to a beautiful woman get their comeuppance (particularly the wealthy--it offers a sort of 'wish fulfillment' for the 99% of us), and the climax here is one of cinema's most articulate presentation of that phenomenon. It definitely made me wish to see the rest of both Greenaway's movies and of Mirren's performances. Well worth the acquired taste necessary for this sort of delicacy.
Helen Mirren
Georgina SpicaCiarán Hinds
CoryTim Roth
MitchelMichael Gambon
Albert SpicaAlex Kingston
AdeleLiz Smith
GraceRon Cook
MewsEwan Stewart
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