The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
An English couple holiday in Venice to sort out their relationship. There is some friction and distance between them... (imdb)
Genre: Drama
Directed By: Paul Schrader
Written By: Harold Pinter, Ian McEwan
Starring: Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson, Helen Mirren, Manfredi Aliquo, David Ford
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The Comfort of Strangers belongs to 9 collections
1. Criterion Collection (public: moderated by caffe - 153 stars)
2. Based on a Book (public: moderated by iconogassed - 19 stars)
3. Gay-Themed Films (Male) (public: moderated by bobyang - 16 stars)
4. TimeOut's 1000 films to change your life (public: moderated by ppinocchio - 11 stars)
5. Based On Novel (public: moderated by tathiel - 7 stars)
6. Criterion Collection (Blu-ray) (private: PepeCamello - 1 star)
7. Cinetheque (private: allegreller)
8. Movies and Mental Illness (blog) (private: Ag0stoMesmer)
9. watchlist (private: babuba)
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| Date | User | Rating | |
| Jan 12 | kjones77 | 80 71% |
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| Dec 12, 2020 | senolatnap | 70 62% |
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No Villains | 77 56% |
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| Nov 21, 2020 | mattcbrown | 62 27% |
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FreddieQuell | 76 67% |
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kulturfizik | 70 52% |
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CHIMP | 65 28% |
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Tiago Vieira | 75 49% |
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mrkacmaz | 80 45% |
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Aras | 65 21% |
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erayyildiz | 80 74% |
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Yiannos | 55 35% |
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Fairly bloodless take on potentially explosive material. Richardson and Everett are bland and struggle to sustain interest until Walken and Mirren appear, and even then their weak performances ensure that any tension is sucked right out of their awkward encounters. Visually it's superior to most Schrader films, but it's a style that tends towards mannerism, and while it improves in the final act as dark desires become increasingly manifest, the impact is thwarted by a stuffy sense of restraint.
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| May 18, 2020 | KamilPPP | 90 83% |
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| May 18, 2020 | flipperrbm | 7 87% |
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seroş | 98 88% |
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Oktay | 60 25% |
| May 01, 2020 | henrybr | 70 21% |
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| Apr 13, 2020 | poloko () | 80 0% |
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| Nov 26, 2019 |  |
porzano | 46 37% |
| Nov 03, 2019 |  |
nobamba | 40 27% |
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Haunting film with not much of a plot. Nice setting. Spends too much time telling us how beautiful Rupert Everett was. Maybe some more setup or explanation (or lack thereof) would have been more substantial. Or end the movie at the climax. Audio sounded distant in my BFI blu-ray. Fav scene: camera slowly following the hallway.
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| Oct 09, 2019 | vesuvius | 64 59% |
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bal3x | 90 96% |
| May 30, 2019 | Slowjoe | 43 18% |
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| May 08, 2019 | SamLoveitt | 75 33% |
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jokevv | 70 75% |
| Dec 30, 2018 | Evren | 84 34% |
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daffodil907 | 69 59% |
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Snufkin88 | 52 7% |
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Razorclock | 82 66% |
| May 07, 2018 | fictionfitz | 73 64% |
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| Apr 15, 2018 | AchwellFoley | 55 43% |
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| Dec 20, 2017 | Systematicer | 30 8% |
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| May 26, 2017 | 92filmgeek | 60 46% |
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| Apr 09, 2017 | FalinPerth | 54 10% |
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A hard to rate erotic horror. It's almost something great, but it just can't quite pull greatness off. The scenery is beautiful, the concept is interesting, the dialogue is great, and the acting is wonderful. The editing, plotting and pacing, however, is where the film fails. It has several great setups and promises that it just never really delivers on. It has great atmosphere, but it ends up being just that, atmosphere without the needed substance to bring it together. Ultimately, forgettable.
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| Mar 29, 2017 |  |
robot2xl | 73 48% |
| Feb 24, 2017 |  |
RYM-byrates | 64 57% |
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jagardoden | 70 51% |
| Dec 23, 2016 | robochaa | 40 7% |
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RavynLoony | 60 59% |
| Nov 10, 2016 | doe | 65 74% |
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Leffingwell | 70 55% |
| Jul 16, 2016 | nicolino | 51 17% |
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| Jul 04, 2016 | Col_Needham | 50 9% |
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fabiovisnadi | 75 21% |
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sebby | 70 71% |
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micmac | 44 16% |
| Jan 18, 2016 | gledX | 80 90% |
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| Oct 16, 2015 | M-B-M | 6 73% |
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| Aug 23, 2015 | PekkaVaino | 61 36% |
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| Jul 20, 2015 | Diggler | 72 58% |
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| Jun 07, 2015 | cbennett | 55 23% |
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| Apr 24, 2015 | OldAle1 | 40 5% |
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| Feb 24, 2015 | debaser1985 | 77 85% |
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soulsentwine | 77 45% |
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b4con | 70 24% |
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Giskard | 80 74% |
| Nov 03, 2014 | fireplacer | 70 45% |
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| Sep 17, 2014 | angela79at | 50 49% |
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| Aug 12, 2014 | Zipster | 80 50% |
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3 brilliant writers, some of the finest thespians working, lensed and scored by 2 Italian masters creating some of their finest work, edited by De Palma's man. Yet somehow, of all these distinctive voices, Pinter's resonates most. Though he's seemingly just adapting a novel, it's his economically stylized ear ridding the exposition of certainty and the characters of transparency, which is just right for a psychothriller so languid and lush that its true nature is only revealed at the very end.
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| Jun 16, 2014 |  |
Matthew92 | 7 46% |
| Mar 11, 2014 |  |
drawingboard | 80 78% |
| Feb 08, 2014 |  |
glumpy_99 | 85 69% |
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Haunting, subtly creepy and atmospheric tale gets better and better as it goes along, helped by brilliantly bizarre performances from Walken and a devilish Mirren, and Schrader's contained, claustrophobic direction. Everett is the one miscast weak link, but Richardson is fine, and the elusive, dreamy nature of proceedings is sustained beautifully until the end credits.
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| Dec 05, 2013 |  |
Hans_Lucas | 73 27% |
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Maruf Merru | 75 63% |
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Limdebois | 80 89% |
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| Aug 17, 2013 | Barkinson | 80 93% |
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| Mar 01, 2013 | Ronin21 | 59 9% |
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| Feb 12, 2013 | DancingP | 70 54% |
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| Jan 26, 2013 | DePalma | 40 28% |
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| Jun 28, 2012 | dgeiser13 | 1 0% |
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lumpnboy | 55 61% |
| May 21, 2012 | toro913 | 48 42% |
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| May 08, 2012 | FlorVdE | 3 67% |
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| Apr 23, 2012 | nrm4 | 62 53% |
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| Mar 31, 2012 | camoka | 94 21% |
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| Mar 28, 2012 | twisp | 70 56% |
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allegreller | 95 95% |
| Feb 04, 2012 | pzingg | 88 52% |
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| Nov 28, 2011 | lethias | 85 71% |
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| Sep 01, 2011 | filmcricket | 48 33% |
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| Apr 12, 2011 | CriticalMaus | 95 71% |
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Pakiri | 80 31% |
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winds | 3 10% |
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macedo | 62 9% |
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ecalder | 40 7% |
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| Feb 16, 2010 | Fetsch | 71 59% |
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kneudorf | 35 17% |
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Frosty | 75 75% |
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A good script and first rate actors combine for a haunting languid film, Venice is a perfect choice of setting echoing Don't Look Now.
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| Aug 26, 2009 | Cinemaniac | 79 64% |
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Stain | 60 47% |
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landsome | 80 77% |
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imdb | 66 55% |
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laika | 7 1% |
| Nov 29, 2008 | digitalmonk | 58 9% |
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| May 02, 2008 | borges | 3 33% |
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| Mar 18, 2008 | RNG | 62 62% |
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djross | 50 41% |
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Score based on distant memory.
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| Jul 14, 2007 | coot | 70 65% |
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| Jun 22, 2007 | calamity | 70 55% |
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schnofel | 65 61% |
| Jan 22, 2007 | nuotio | 65 82% |
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| Nov 28, 2006 | RPMcMurphy | 30 6% |
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| Average Percentile 48.47% from 118 Ratings |  |
