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The Passion of Darkly Noon

The Passion of Darkly Noon

1995
Drama
Suspense/Thriller
1h 41m
While driving through the forest to the isolated house of the lovers Callie and Clay, the driver Jude finds a young man fainted on the road. He rescues the stranger, Darkly Noon, and the sensual Callie welcomes him while Clay is retired in the woods. He explains that his religious parents had been killed in their house by the furious locals and he had successfully escaped with his bible. Darkly becomes sexually obsessed by the sexy Callie and uses flagellation to punish himself for his desire. (imdb)
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The Passion of Darkly Noon

1995
Drama
Suspense/Thriller
1h 41m
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Rated 10 Feb 2023
46
16th
After the viking funeral for a dog atop a shoe boat, the movie started getting ridiculous. Did I like it? No. Not in the end. Do I recommend it? Yes. Yes I do. As deep_green notes, strong first half and then loses it in an oddly disappointing blast of wackiness. It feels more damaging because of the good will the first half had earned, to see it wasted actually hurts a little. Judd's audio goes nuts in the second half too which adds fire to the letdown. It's bizarre enough to sit through though.
Rated 12 Nov 2014
76
69th
Very weird movie. I can't say I've ever seen anything else quite like it. Ridley has a unique creative voice that could be described as out of this world, both deeply enchanting and utterly baffling in a way that constantly makes you wonder about the line between true genius & misguided incompetence. Time has proved this to be a lingering & haunting experience though that refuses to entirely leave my mind. Still much prefer The Reflecting Skin.
Rated 19 Feb 2024
65
51st
Ridley's films are frustratingly flawed, because there are moments, I would say the entire first half of this film, which dazzled me. As soon as I had decided this could be one of my favourite little gems, it started to clusterfuck. The editing is great, and stylistically the film evolves with the main character's psychology, from fluid to increasingly fragmented and expressive. I couldn't begin to comment on thematics here, but it is certainly rich.
Rated 18 Jun 2018
40
8th
An awkward mash-up of art-house Southern Gothic and straight-to-video erotic suspense. Miscast Brendan Fraser is way out of his depth playing an avatar of Christian sexual repression who is destined to explode when confronted with a benevolent, earthy sexpot and her lusty coffin-maker husband. His blunt, broad features are ill-suited to convey anything internal, alternating b/w blank expressions and Kabuki glares and grimaces. Ridley's script and direction are equally blunt and artless.
Rated 27 Mar 2013
76
57th
Effectively edited by-the-book, particularly in the lurid drama of the last 15 minutes, by Les Healey, (and I don't mean that pejoratively) and shot resourcefully by John de Borman ( of Almeryeda's under-appreciated Hamlet), this throwback to 70s & 80s psycho-sexual horror is worth a look, although it contains almost as many enervating moments as it does compelling ones. Judd must like this stuff: She starred in Friedkin's Bug, a much better movie.
Rated 18 Nov 2015
55
11th
A repressed young man (Brendan Fraser) raised in a fundamentalist cult becomes obsessed with the woman (Ashley Judd) who takes him in, but when her lover (Viggo Mortensen) enters the picture, his obsession becomes dangerous. A bizarre combination of Southern gothic and psychological horror, frequently pretentious and overwrought, but bold enough in its absurdity--and with enough flashes of talent--to be entertaining in its way. The performers generally seem a touch lost in the madness.

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