Buy Night Porter Criterion Collection Spine DVD Movie Buy Cheap

The Night Porter (Criterion Collection Spine #59) dvd movie.

Home » DVD Movies » Art Home » Local » Italian » General

The Night Porter (Criterion Collection Spine #59)
buy bestselling dvd movies, videos find reviews, ratings, prices

	List Price: $29.95 Our Price: $21.99 You Save: $7.96 *Features* • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Letterboxed • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 01 October, 1974 DVD Release : 28 March, 2000
[ + Zoom ] [ Buy Now ]	DVD : Usually ships in 24 hours

The Night Porter (Criterion Collection Spine #59) description
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

The Night Porter (Criterion Collection Spine #59) Customer Reviews

♥♥♥♥♥

Disappointing

I had pretty high expectations for The Night Porter. The reviews are good and the premise seemed interesting. I often enjoy daring and provocative films, so I gave it a shot. Once it started, I kept waiting for it to develop and it never did. I kept saying to myself, Finally, now we're getting somewhere...oh wait, never mind.' It just dragged on with little or no purpose. And I felt like it was edited by an 8th grade audio-visual club. The dubbing was bad, the writing/acting was labored and the direction was uninspired. What few points the film does score are earned by its relatively creative and esoteric premise. And since there weren't any other entrants in the 1974 Post-War Era Sadomasochistic Nazi Film Festival', The Night Porter won first prize. But I think the main reason that this film has its cult status, or any following whatsoever, is good advertising. The DVD cover is intriguing, and honestly the cover is better than the film itself. Save yourself the time and money and rent it, or try another film. Schindler's List has some similar themes, mainly with Ralph Fiennes' character, although it is a far superior film of a different overall genre. As a last resort, I guess you could watch Triumph of the Will while sitting on a tack and achieve a comparable level of sadomasochistic Nazism. To each his own.

Non User