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The comfort of strangers / Skouras Pictures ; Angelo Rizzoli presents ; an Erre Produzioni, Sovereign Pictures production ; in association with Reteitalia s.p.a. ; a film by Paul Schrader ; screenplay by Harold Pinter ; produced by Angelo Rizzoli ; directed by Paul Schrader.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Schrader, Paul, 1946- film director.
Rizzoli, Angelo, film producer.
Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008, screenwriter.
Spinotti, Dante, director of photography.
Badalamenti, Angelo, composer (expression).
Pankow, Bill, editor of moving image work.
Quaranta, Gianni, production desinger.
Walken, Christopher, 1943- actor.
Richardson, Natasha, actor.
Everett, Rupert, actor.
Mirren, Helen, actor.
Erre Produzioni (Firm), production company.
Sovereign Pictures (Firm), production company.
Reteitalia (Firm), production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.
Series:
Criterion collection ; 1041.
Criterion collection ; 1041
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
McEwan, Ian--Film adaptations.
McEwan, Ian.
English--Travel--Italy--Venice--Drama.
English.
English--Travel.
Venice (Italy)--Drama.
Venice (Italy).
Murder--Drama.
Murder.
Italy--Venice.
Genre:
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
Motion pictures, Italian.
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (104 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + insert (folded poster : color illustration ; 18 cm).
polychrome
Place of Publication:
[New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2020]
Language Note:
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
System Details:
DVD; region 1, NTSC; wide screen (1.66:1); monaural.
digital
optical
mono
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1
Summary:
Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson are the prey, a beautiful British couple working on their relationship while on holiday in Venice; Christopher Walken and Helen Mirren are the hunters who draw them into the sinister web of their opulent, old-world palazzo. What plays out is an unsettling, sadomasochistic seduction imbued with an atmosphere of sumptuous dread.
Participant:
Christopher Walken, Natasha Richardson, Rupert Everett, Helen Mirren.
Credits:
Editor, Bill Pankow ; cinematographer, Dante Spinotti ; composer, Angelo Badalamenti ; production desinger, Gianni Quaranta.
Notes:
Title from title frame.
Based on the novel by Ian McEwan.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1990.
Wide screen (1.66:1).
Bonus features: new interviews with Spinotti, director Paul Schrader, actor Christopher Walken and editor Bill Pankow; interviews from 1981 and 2001 with novelist Ian McEwan and actor Natasha Richardson; trailers.
ISBN:
9781681437521
168143752X
OCLC:
1159458276
Publisher Number:
715515250412
CC3180DDVD The Criterion Collection

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