Damage
(AKA Fatale)
Screening on Film
Directed by Louis Malle.
With Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson.
UK/France, 1992, 35mm, color, 111 min.
English and French with English subtitles.
With Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson.
UK/France, 1992, 35mm, color, 111 min.
English and French with English subtitles.
This faithful film adaptation of Josephine Hart's best-selling novel stars Jeremy Irons as Dr. Stephen Fleming, an upstanding British politician and family man whose erotic obsession with his son's fiancée Anna (Juliette Binoche) eventually destroys his public and private lives. Their extremely passionate sexual encounters are kept secret and plans for the wedding continue undisturbed until Anna's mother reveals a brutal secret and the lives of Fleming and his family begin their descent towards catastrophe, thus emphasizing the close ties between pleasure and suffering. Miranda Richardson gives an emotionally powerful performance as Irons's wife.
