Edition |
Director-approved special edition. |
Description |
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([30] pages ; illustrations, color ; 19 cm.). |
Series |
The Criterion collection ; 303 |
|
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 303.
|
System Details |
DVD; Dolby Digital mono; widescreen (2.35:1) presentation. |
Cast |
Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel, Denholm Elliott. |
Credits |
Director of photography, Anthony Richmond ; film editor, Tony Lawson ; art director, David Brockhurst ; original music composed and conducted by Richard Hartley. |
Note |
Originally produced as a British motion picture in 1980. |
Audience |
MPAA rating: R. |
Summary |
Alex is a cold, distant, fiercely intellectual research psychiatrist from New York, teaching in Vienna. Milena, an Army brat, has wandered back through the countries she was raised in to find herself there, too. They meet at a party, are immediately attracted to each other, and fall quickly into a sexually obsessive relationship. Milena has a husband across the border named Stefan, and a drinking problem. This does not make Alex very happy. Their relationship becomes a fight for power, waged with manipulation, drugs, despair, need, and lust, and it is never clear if there is any real 'winner'. |
Note |
Special features: Trade Secrets: Nicolas Roeg and Jeremy Thomas [featurette] (28 min.) (2004); Theresa Russell [featurette] (19 min.) (2005); Deleted scenes [featurette] (17 min.); Theatrical trailer (2 min.); Gallery; booklet includes the essays "The men who didn't know something" by Richard Combs and "A case of bad timing: Art Garfunkel's real-life tragedy" by Chris Hodenfield. |
Language |
English dialogue with optional English subtitles. |
Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
Subject |
Man-woman relationships -- Austria -- Drama.
|
|
Americans -- Austria -- Vienna -- Drama.
|
|
Drugs -- Overdose -- Drama.
|
|
Jealousy -- Drama.
|
|
Deception -- Drama.
|
|
Vienna (Austria) -- Drama.
|
Genre/Form |
Feature films.
|
|
Feature films -- Great Britain.
|
Added Author |
Roeg, Nicolas, 1928-2018
|
|
Thomas, Jeremy.
|
|
Udoff, Yale.
|
|
Garfunkel, Art.
|
|
Russell, Theresa, 1957-
|
|
Keitel, Harvey.
|
|
Elliott, Denholm.
|
|
Criterion Collection (Firm)
|
ISBN |
1559409630 |
|
9781559409636 |
Standard No. |
715515016520 |
Music No. |
CC1615D Criterion Collection |
|