Damage

Damage

1992 · 111 min · EN · R · 6.6 (689 votes)
Dir. Louis Malle · Starring Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson, Rupert Graves, Peter Stormare, Gemma Clarke · Music Zbigniew Preisner

Desire... Deceit... Destiny...

DramaRomance

The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.

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This film is a suffocating descent into the intoxicating and destructive power of forbidden desire. It's a melancholic, intensely intimate character study, elegantly unraveling the tragic consequences of an all-consuming obsession beneath a veneer of societal respectability.

obsessivemelancholicintensesuffocatingtragicforbiddenslow-burnEuropean arthouseintimate dramapsychological intensityelegant eroticismforbidden desireobsessionbetrayalself-destructionsocietal facade
london, englandsibling relationshiploss of loved onelongingpoliticianscandalin flagrantifemme fataleolder man younger woman relationshipextramarital affairvoyeurfather son relationshiptory politician
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