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Crimes of Passion

Crimes of Passion

1984
Romance, Drama
1h 47m
A sportswear designer leads a double life as a hooker named China Blue. One of her clients, a divorced man, decides he loves her and figures out who she is. He then begins wooing her, which she fights against since he was a client. (imdb)
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Crimes of Passion

1984
Romance, Drama
1h 47m
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Rated 03 Feb 2008
90
86th
Not erotic, but satisfyingly crazy (a rarer quality)
Rated 14 Jul 2011
70
58th
As with many of Ken Russell's films, the excessiveness will put some people off, but if there was a perfect director to make a film about sex, drenched in 1980s music and aesthetics, Russell is that person, combining high and low culture for a potent effect. It's also a very thoughtful character piece if you get past the razor vibrators and neon lighting.
Rated 15 Aug 2016
79
84th
I've never seen before such a great manifestation of the opposition between sex based on symbolism and sex based on somatic bodily feelings . Though I want to say, like the movie seems to want, that somatic bodily feelings based sex is much superior, I am not sure it's true anymore.
Rated 09 May 2023
90
92nd
Slithering through the Criterion Channels erotic thriller collection like a perverse explorer. Kinda stupid to mention how visually wild a Ken Russel movie is but here we are. There's this sex scene thats like the Austin powers shadow gag and the music sounds like a SEGA Genesis game it's amazing.
Rated 21 Jun 2008
55
48th
The scenes between Turner and Perkins are top notch but the rest of the movie falls flat.
Rated 23 Jul 2009
65
43rd
What a weird movie with A.Perkins. Like in Psycho he was really a nutcase and a sick bastard. Great performance of him.
Rated 11 Mar 2012
68
10th
Amusing, but very sleazy . . . and very silly too.
Rated 24 Feb 2016
86
84th
Brilliant trash, with the acting from the three leads making this film fun in their own different ways -- Turner is confident and dangerous as the hooker who takes her job very seriously, Laughlin as the suave '80s archetype, and Perkins as the batshit conflicted preacher. The film is very much in tune with its time, but it shows a range of tone -- sometimes it can be eccentrically wild and sometimes it can be honed in on its important (specifically Western) themes.
Rated 15 Mar 2017
77
48th
Like Lynch, Ken Russell seems nuts, but he's refreshingly not arthouse opaque. If anything, his lunacy seems to come from a manic commitment to underlining his points w/ smash cuts that veer into self-parody at times. Some of the dialogue in this script is also ambiguously camp (does he WANT to make us laugh?) & the ideas too worshipful of repression theories. Still, fans of the unusual should appreciate this (& Turner is as kinky & hot as you're ever going to see a mainstream actress be).
Rated 11 Jan 2018
55
44th
In a nutshell: High-quality trash from an eccentric director whose two favorite themes are religion and prostitution, and whose musical preferences are classical and post-punk. It's a nicely oddball movie, despite all its flat jokes, unappealing eroticism, tacky thrills and utterly ridiculous portrayals. Kathleen Turner looks like she's having fun in her preposterous role.
Rated 15 May 2023
40
18th
Sleazy nonsense featuring one of film's worst husbands. Patrick Swayze auditioned but they went with John Laughlin. Now, I am missing the alternate universe version of this film featuring Swayze :(.
Rated 26 Oct 2009
55
52nd
Like every other Russell movie it gets caught up in iconic moments, which is a shame indeed. It runs close to be emotionally significant if not for the sharp corners.
Rated 01 Jul 2010
69
59th
"...and we fucked happily ever after" amen to that!
Rated 13 Jul 2015
85
81st
+5 for David Decoteau's craft services
Rated 14 Aug 2016
89
91st
Here and there it's sprinkled with comforting smirks for the straight audience, but those smirks cover a throat full of shit that stays sealed only for moments. Most of the running time is pure bubbling toxic, oozing dark substance of decaying personality cells, and a character grasping for self.
Rated 19 Mar 2017
65
58th
"Save me from this big-mouthed cooze with a motor-driven ass!" Scenes of lurid fun juxtaposed with mundane domesticity. Then when we get the raw honesty/redemption of the last half hour, it's riveting. Turner is mostly great, and casting old poof Tony Perkins as the obsessive/psychotic "preacher" was brilliant--he even sings a show tune at the end! All that synthisized/rock Dvorak New World Symphony gets real irritating REAL fast. I was never so happy to hear "Onward, Christian Soldiers".
Rated 04 Jul 2021
80
36th
This was pretty weird and it's really silly that this movie got an X rating. Especially in the 1980s.
Rated 25 Apr 2023
72
48th
Ken Russell's therapist must have made a fortune. The only other Russell movie I have seen is The Devils, and I said that movie was "weird but fascinating shit," which I think is accurate to describe this one as well. I didn't find myself LIKING it all that much, but Russell's style is just so bold and urgent that it's difficult to take your eyes off. Like The Devils, the rating is particularly high, but the uniqueness makes it more worth it than that. Perkins is great chewing the scenery.
Rated 30 Apr 2023
79
68th
This may be Turner's best, or at least most interesting, performance. It is bold and vulnerable while also being quite funny, at times. The best parts are scenes with her and Perkins, who plays an unhinged (surprising, I know) priest with a knife vibrator. It is Ken Russell so of course its wild. Annie Potts rules.

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