1973, 118 min
A.K.A.: Il Portiere di notte
Country: Italy
Studio: Criterion
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling
Director: Liliana Cavani
Rating: R
Our Rating:
The Night Porter
SKINOPSISA waiflike Charlotte Rampling bares all as a survivor of Nazi sexual abuse, who runs into her former torturer after the war. They hook up and begin a creepy (and extremely kinky) sadomasochistic game by recreating those roles. (Italian with English subtitles)3 REASONS TO BUY THIS FILM
REVIEW
Few films equal the unrelenting intensity of Cavani's disturbing drama. Years after surviving sexual imprisonment under a Nazi stormtrooper, a woman inadvertently encounters her former torturer/lover working as a night porter at a Viennese hotel. Despite their reversed positions of power, they ultimately reenact their sadomasochistic roles in a gruesomely lecherous dance of death. (Filmed in English) Editor's Suggestions
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