The comfort of strangers

DVD 2020

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.

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Feature films

Film adaptations

Films for hard of hearing people

McEwan, Ian Film adaptations

Murder Drama

Thrillers (Motion pictures)

Venice (Italy) Drama

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Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 1041

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ISBN:

9781681437521

Description:

1 videodisc (104 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert
digital
optical
mono
videodisc
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1
polychrome

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: NR

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
Region 1, NTSC; wide screen (1.66:1); monaural
Editor, Bill Pankow ; cinematographer, Dante Spinotti ; composer, Angelo Badalamenti ; production desinger, Gianni Quaranta
Christopher Walken, Natasha Richardson, Rupert Everett, Helen Mirren
DVD
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)

LCCN:

be2020013346

Control Number:

3006778

UPC:

715515250412

Other Authors:

Badalamenti, Angelo, composer (expression)
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor
Erre Produzioni (Firm), production company
Everett, Rupert, actor
Mirren, Helen, actor
Motion picture adaptation of (work): McEwan, Ian. Comfort of strangers
Pankow, Bill, editor of moving image work
Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008, screenwriter
Quaranta, Gianni, production desinger
Reteitalia (Firm), production company
Richardson, Natasha, actor
Rizzoli, Angelo, film producer
Schrader, Paul, 1946- film director
Sovereign Pictures (Firm), production company
Spinotti, Dante, director of photography
Walken, Christopher, 1943- actor

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