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A meek and mild woman called Bella moves into a flat in Brighton and finds herself being harassed by a male neighbour. Having committed a violent act against the neighbour, she is transformed into a murderous femme fatale who embarks on a mission of revenge against other mean and nasty men. Much like his earlier Death Wish films, director Michael Winner's film Dirty Weekend focuses on the story of a person who goes on a violent mission of vengeance against those who they have been wronged by. Banned in the UK for two years, Dirty Weekend is a violent and menacing film that features a strong performance from Lia Williams as Bella, who has been repeatedly threatened by a number of men and opts to dispense some violent retribution.
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Michael Winner directs a curious amalgam of his own Death Wish and Abel Ferrara's Ms. 45, in this intense, post-feminist serial-killer movie, based on the bestseller by Helen Zahavi. After an explosive love affair crashes and burns, Bella (Lia Williams) leaves London for Brighton, where she begins to receive a series of obscene telephone calls from her deranged neighbor. Soon her neighbor also begins to stalk her. When the local police refuse to help her, Bella determines to take the matter into her own hands. Finally, at the urging of a loony Asian clairvoyant (Ian Richardson), Bella sneaks into the stalker's apartment in the dead of night and beats him to death with a claw-hammer. And to Bella's surprise, she finds that she likes it.; ...Dirty Weekend
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
"Dirty Weekend" isn't a movie about a dirty weekend, although the plot is set in Brighton, England.
Rather, it's a feminist version of "Death Wish", even directed by the same guy, Michael Winner. I've never seen "Death Wish", probably because the movie is too controversial to show on TV, and I'm too lazy to rent or buy it, but I've seen "Dirty Weekend" once. It was on a Swedish channel, very late at night!
The movie is based on a novel by Helen Zahavi (also available from Amazon) but since I never read it, I'm not sure how close Winner followed it.
In the beginning, you get the impression that "Dirty Weekend" is a tragic drama about a lonely, weak and pathetic woman followed by a stalker, who gets progressively more and more threatening. It is not. The woman, Bella, gets to know a mysterious Iranian cult leader, a certain Nimrod, who reams her out and tells her that she must resist. Nimrod gives her a parting gift: a knife. (In the Bible, Nimrod is one of the bad guys. Is Nimrod a symbol of the Devil?)
Bella then decides to do as Nimrod told her. She sneaks into the stalker's flat at night, and quite simply bashes him to death with a clawhammer! The rest of the movie is a veritable killing spree, as Bella hunts down and kills an assortment of the local male chauvinist pigs (usually rapists). Nimrod's knife also comes in handy, as the heroine disposes of a male serial killer in the closing scenes. The story ends with Bella moving from Brighton to London, apparently intent on continuing a life of vigilantism.
I can't say this is the best movie around. I suspect Charles Bronson was better in "Death Wish". Still, one wonders why a film about a female vigilante has almost no audience (and no customer reviews!), while male action heroes are all over the place?
As a feminist protest, I give it five stars. Watch out, sexists: the next woman you molest might be Bella. And I might be...Nimrod.
;-)
Rather, it's a feminist version of "Death Wish", even directed by the same guy, Michael Winner. I've never seen "Death Wish", probably because the movie is too controversial to show on TV, and I'm too lazy to rent or buy it, but I've seen "Dirty Weekend" once. It was on a Swedish channel, very late at night!
The movie is based on a novel by Helen Zahavi (also available from Amazon) but since I never read it, I'm not sure how close Winner followed it.
In the beginning, you get the impression that "Dirty Weekend" is a tragic drama about a lonely, weak and pathetic woman followed by a stalker, who gets progressively more and more threatening. It is not. The woman, Bella, gets to know a mysterious Iranian cult leader, a certain Nimrod, who reams her out and tells her that she must resist. Nimrod gives her a parting gift: a knife. (In the Bible, Nimrod is one of the bad guys. Is Nimrod a symbol of the Devil?)
Bella then decides to do as Nimrod told her. She sneaks into the stalker's flat at night, and quite simply bashes him to death with a clawhammer! The rest of the movie is a veritable killing spree, as Bella hunts down and kills an assortment of the local male chauvinist pigs (usually rapists). Nimrod's knife also comes in handy, as the heroine disposes of a male serial killer in the closing scenes. The story ends with Bella moving from Brighton to London, apparently intent on continuing a life of vigilantism.
I can't say this is the best movie around. I suspect Charles Bronson was better in "Death Wish". Still, one wonders why a film about a female vigilante has almost no audience (and no customer reviews!), while male action heroes are all over the place?
As a feminist protest, I give it five stars. Watch out, sexists: the next woman you molest might be Bella. And I might be...Nimrod.
;-)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Michael Winner is back - this time without Charles Bronson, who went on filming DEATH WISH V. This time Winner tells the story from a woman's point of view - and does a good job at it! Descent directing and a quite good story - based on Helen Zahavi's novel of the same title.
The psychological aspect of this movie is a lot better than in most of its kind - Lia Williams is convincing as Bella by portraying her transformation from victim to vigilante. There is some cynical dark humor in this as well - a wink to that end scene of Death Wish 1?
Quite graphic in the depiction of sex and violence, but then again, aren't they all? A few scenes do seem a bit staged (Gun store scene) or remind of other movies (Bella taking out 3 guys in an alley, Bronson-style), but it didn't really bother me.
Overall not as excellent as Death Wish 1 and 2 or Ms. 45 but coming quite close.
The psychological aspect of this movie is a lot better than in most of its kind - Lia Williams is convincing as Bella by portraying her transformation from victim to vigilante. There is some cynical dark humor in this as well - a wink to that end scene of Death Wish 1?
Quite graphic in the depiction of sex and violence, but then again, aren't they all? A few scenes do seem a bit staged (Gun store scene) or remind of other movies (Bella taking out 3 guys in an alley, Bronson-style), but it didn't really bother me.
Overall not as excellent as Death Wish 1 and 2 or Ms. 45 but coming quite close.
Format:DVD
great british ms 45 clone, beware though, all dvd releases of this michael winner sleaze fest have been cut!!. extended hammer blows,sleazy dentist bj scene, hooded rapist dirty talk and death scene etc..., i still have an original time coded vhs tape from when it was first released in early 90s back when i worked in a video rental shop,and it was fully uncut, remember vid shops!. this is probably more sleazy than winners DEATH WISH 2 (fully uncut version only) ,just a shame that for whatever reason no one has ever released an uncut version of this underated sleaze fest.
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