Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20546 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-09-01
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 102 minutes

Synopsis
Ken Russell's sexual caricature finds an all-American man, who's trapped in a sexless marriage, falling in love with a businesswoman who turns into a hooker by night. A psychotic priest (Perkins) tries to prevent their union, driving the wedge between love and sex. A thoughtful, sometimes very shocking study of sex, love and religion.

Customer Reviews

A crime to miss this one!
I first saw this film on VHS many years ago and was probably underage at the time! The story stayed with mr though and when I spotted it on DVD recently I just had to add it to my collection.

Ken Russell has a reputation for providing his audience with contraversial and often shocking depictions of a world that is far removed from the average viewers experience and allows us a chance to get an alternative take on stories which we thought we knew well. With this film he presents us with two sides of a coin we may not want to possess; sexual perversion or frigidity, obsession or detachment, religious fervour or existance in a godless world. The imagery is as sharply focussed as one would expect from Ken Russell and he has drawn the very best from all the cast and crew to produce a film which is shocking, yet which possesses a gentle humour and a moral core which we can hold on to when things get rough - as they invariably will do in a Russell movie!

Both Kathleen Turner and Anthony Perkins give amazing performances; two lost souls adrift in the world both looking fir meaning, on different paths but destined to converge.

I loved this film many years ago and I love it still today.