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The Night Porter (The Criterion Collection) DVD

R (Restricted) :: Criterion :: Released: 2000-03-28

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The Night Porter (The Criterion Collection) Summary In Liliana Cavani's Scintillating Drama, A Concentration Camp Survivor (charlotte Rampling) Discovers Her Ex-torturer/lover (dirk Bogarde) Working As A Night Porter At A Hotel In Postwar Vienna. When The Couple Attempt To Re-create Their Sadomasochistic Relationship, His Former Ss Comrades Begin To Stalk Them. Operatic And Disturbing, the Night Porter Deftly Examines The Cruelty And Decadence Of Nazi Culture.

For those who like their love stories dipped in decadence, Liliana Cavani's dark and disturbing 1974 drama--about a concentration camp survivor who fatefully comes face to face with her ex-Nazi captor and lover--has held up quite well over the years despite its sensationalistic tone. It helps that the mysterious, cobra-eyed Charlotte Rampling plays the survivor, Lucia, and that the unctuous and languid British actor, Dirk Bogarde, is former SS officer Max, a now-benign night porter at the Vienna hotel where the pair coincidentally collides. There is a haunted hollowness to these characters that resigns them to relive the sordid past that tragically binds them. Criterion's DVD offers the film in its best available condition, and the color has been restored to enhance its symbolic significance. The Night Porter uses landscape as character, and its desaturated tones evoke memory of the Holocaust and a shady 1950s Vienna plagued by post-World War II guilt. In fact, this is a film full of shadows and shame, and Max and Lucia are victims of this frightening world in which nothing can be trusted and around every corner lurk spies in their house of forbidden love. --Paula Nechak

Night Porter [Criterion Collection] DVD Techincal Details Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Ferzetti, Giuseppe Addobbati
Director: Liliana Cavani
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Rated: R (Restricted)
Running Time: 118 mins
UPC: 037429145227
Binding: DVD
Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 2000-03-28
Region Code: 1
Specs: Closed-captioned, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC

Language & Subtitles English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Italian (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono),