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| Released: |
1992 |
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| Genre: |
DRAMA
ROMANCE
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| Origin: |
France/ GB |
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| Colour: |
C |
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| Length: |
112 |
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PRO Reviews
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| | Louis Malle is a director who has specialized in varieties of forbidden sex. His credits include Pretty Baby, about a photographer's child model, and Murmur of the Heart, about incest. His screenplay is by the playwright David Hare, who does an excellent job of surrounding these people with convincing characters whose very ordinariness underlines the madness of their actions. Miranda Richardson plays Jeremy Irons' wife, and is magnificently angry in the powerful closing scenes. Leslie Caron is Anna's mother, who knows her daughter well, and sees what is happening. And Rupert Graves is warm and likable as the son. Damage, like Last Tango in Paris and The Unbearable Lightness of Being, is one of those rare movies that is about sexuality, not sex; about the tension between people, not ‘relationships’; about how physical love is meaningless without a psychic engine behind it. Stephen and Anna are wrong to do what they do in Damage, but they cannot help themselves. We know they are careening toward disaster. We cannot look away. | | | | (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times) | | A carefully controlled picture about uncontrollable passion, in which precise camera movements and unobtrusive editing subtly complement the immaculate acting. | | | | (Philip French, Observer) | |
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(LONDON CRITICS' CIRCLE AWARD - BRITISH ACTRESS OF THE YEAR)
