Close My Eyes (1991)
Close My Eyes (1991)
DVDRip | AVI | 624x368 | XviD @ 1594 Kbps | English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | 108 min | 1,36 Gb
Genre: Drama, Romance
DVDRip | AVI | 624x368 | XviD @ 1594 Kbps | English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | 108 min | 1,36 Gb
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director: Stephen Poliakoff
Writer: Stephen Poliakoff
Stars: Alan Rickman, Clive Owen, Saskia Reeves
After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie, who is now married. The relationship between Richard and Natalie proves dangerously obsessional. Their private intensity (& working class origins) contrast with the middle-class, inhibited, stuffy public scenes we see in the Richmond world into which Natalie has moved with her marriage. As the guilt and intensity of the siblings increases we seem to be heading for disaster, especially when Natalie's husband Sinclair finds out.
IMDB - 4 wins
The subject of incest, between an adult man and his sister, will immediately put off many potential movie watchers, but for those not turned away easily, Close My Eyes succeeds as a sociological study, and should be commended for its hypnotic depiction of very difficult subject matter.
How many times have we seen, or imagined, an inappropriate flirtation from a woman, at a time when circumstances have left her emotionally distraught? That this flirtation of Natalie (Saskia Reeves) should find its way to her own younger brother Richard (Clive Owen) immediately jump starts the story into somewhat previously uncharted water.
Perhaps incest is a drug, not unlike and somewhere between alcohol and heroin, and certainly the intensity of the feelings, the desire, as portrayed between the two translates to us as such. It is this undeniable intensity that is the strength, perhaps the honesty of the film.
Alan Rickman, is brilliant, as usual, in a smallish role as Natalie's husband.
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Close My Eyes (1991)
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