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25 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I first saw this film on VHS many years ago and was probably underage at the time! The story stayed with mr though and when I spotted it on DVD recently I just had to add it to my collection.
Ken Russell has a reputation for providing his audience with contraversial and often shocking depictions of a world that is far removed from the average viewers experience and allows us a chance to get an alternative take on stories which we thought we knew well. With this film he presents us with two sides of a coin we may not want to possess; sexual perversion or frigidity, obsession or detachment, religious fervour or existance in a godless world. The imagery is as sharply focussed as one would expect from Ken Russell and he has drawn the very best from all the cast and crew to produce a film which is shocking, yet which possesses a gentle humour and a moral core which we can hold on to when things get rough - as they invariably will do in a Russell movie!
Both Kathleen Turner and Anthony Perkins give amazing performances; two lost souls adrift in the world both looking fir meaning, on different paths but destined to converge.
I loved this film many years ago and I love it still today.
Ken Russell has a reputation for providing his audience with contraversial and often shocking depictions of a world that is far removed from the average viewers experience and allows us a chance to get an alternative take on stories which we thought we knew well. With this film he presents us with two sides of a coin we may not want to possess; sexual perversion or frigidity, obsession or detachment, religious fervour or existance in a godless world. The imagery is as sharply focussed as one would expect from Ken Russell and he has drawn the very best from all the cast and crew to produce a film which is shocking, yet which possesses a gentle humour and a moral core which we can hold on to when things get rough - as they invariably will do in a Russell movie!
Both Kathleen Turner and Anthony Perkins give amazing performances; two lost souls adrift in the world both looking fir meaning, on different paths but destined to converge.
I loved this film many years ago and I love it still today.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
This film is about China Blue, mild mannered designer by day, and cheap hooker by night. The atmosphere is well captured, but overall the film seems dated. Still a good watch though, but not one for the top of the pile when it comes to re-watching. OK for the price, as it is very well acted.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is one of the few films I have on my shelves that I don't know whether I like or not. It's certainly an adult work and suffers from all of the excesses that you have to expect from Ken Russell, but it has a powerhouse performance from Kathleen Turner, a showing from Anthony Perkins that's so over the top that it's halfway down the other side and a lurid quality that will put many people off.
It's a film that is intriguing and repellant almost equally. It's at times infantile in its pantomimic qualities and then contains scenes that are restrained and full of quality acting and meaning. It's a film of contrasts and jarring tonal changes.
It's certainly sexual in nature, though not as explicit as you might think.
Anyway, what else might you expect from film that features a preacher out to murder a prostitute who tempts him with a killer vibrator as the weapon of choice?
It's a film that is intriguing and repellant almost equally. It's at times infantile in its pantomimic qualities and then contains scenes that are restrained and full of quality acting and meaning. It's a film of contrasts and jarring tonal changes.
It's certainly sexual in nature, though not as explicit as you might think.
Anyway, what else might you expect from film that features a preacher out to murder a prostitute who tempts him with a killer vibrator as the weapon of choice?
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