Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780780605794 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 0780605799 Label: New Line Home Video Manufacturer: New Line Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Line Home Video Release Date: April 15, 1997 Running Time: 111 minutes Studio: New Line Home Video Theatrical Release Date: January 22, 1993 Sales Rank: 12592
Amazon.com: The fascination of watching Damage is similar to the fascination of watching a car crash in progress--you know something unpleasant is going to happen, but your attention is riveted to the scene of destruction. In the case of this acclaimed drama, adapted by playwright David Hare from the novel by Josephine Hart, the destruction results from a collision of sexual attraction between a British governmental official (Jeremy Irons) and his son's fiancée (Juliette Binoche). Blind to the damage they'll cause to others and themselves, they begin an obsessive affair based purely on impulsive attraction and the hidden emotions that feed into their immediate physical desires. As you could expect, this leads to emotional fallout for everyone concerned, lending multiple interpretations to the film's title and allowing Miranda Richardson (as Irons's wife) to give a brilliant performance drawn from raw anger and betrayal. Under the direction of Louis Malle, this forceful drama never resorts to sordid detail or gratuitous titillation. Rather, Malle and his esteemed cast have explored the ways in which the power of sexuality supercedes the rationality of logic, when mutual attraction is stronger than one's ability to resist temptation. Damage makes it clear that such an indulgence will always come at considerable cost. The DVD of this fine film includes a behind-the-scenes featurette and the original theatrical trailer. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Emotionally captivating with brilliant performances by Irons, Binoche and Richardson
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I don't know whether I've ever watched a film in which I identified more with all the characters than I did in this emotionally wrenching masterwork from the late, great ... Read More
Rating: - SOMETHING IS MISSING
In the beginning the sons girl friend of a short time just happens to go meet the sons father on her own, then stares at him in a intense way, very deranged scene, where is the plot???. I gave this ... Read More
Rating: - deep, shocking.....
Every time I watch a movie that is based on a book, I can't help but thinking that it just can't be fair to the book itself. There will always be a way or another to minimize either the story or the characters. ... Read More
Rating: - Better in a theater, but a good film
T. Rafferty's bitchy New Yorker review reminds me why I hate New York pretentiousness amongst critics who watch and grieve from their self-appointed piss-elegant armchairs, and why Amazon would give him the space ... Read More
Rating: - Sickness + Sickness + Sickness +.......
The English.....What can you expect from them??......Sickness.....i think incest is in their blood.....They are shameless
- Emotionally captivating with brilliant performances by Irons, Binoche and Richardson
- SOMETHING IS MISSING
- Sickness + Sickness + Sickness +.......