Ein gescheiterter Londoner Musiker trifft sich einmal die Woche mit einer Frau, um in den intensiven sexuellen Begegnungen die raue Wirklichkeit des Lebens zu vergessen. Doch als er damit be... Alles lesenEin gescheiterter Londoner Musiker trifft sich einmal die Woche mit einer Frau, um in den intensiven sexuellen Begegnungen die raue Wirklichkeit des Lebens zu vergessen. Doch als er damit beginnt, Nachforschungen über sie anzustellen, gefährdet er damit ihre Beziehung.Ein gescheiterter Londoner Musiker trifft sich einmal die Woche mit einer Frau, um in den intensiven sexuellen Begegnungen die raue Wirklichkeit des Lebens zu vergessen. Doch als er damit beginnt, Nachforschungen über sie anzustellen, gefährdet er damit ihre Beziehung.
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- Hauptbesetzung
- Auszeichnungen
- 6 Gewinne & 5 Nominierungen insgesamt
- Student at the Drama School
- (as Deborah McLaren)
- Jay's Child
- (as Vinni Hunter)
- Woman at the Audition
- (as Siân Reeves)
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Meeting once a week, and hardly speaking to each other, both Claire and Jay seem to be satisfied with little more than sex; but his curiosity takes over, he begins to follow her, and is resentful and envious when faced with the realisation that she has a life of her own and may simply be using him. The movie explores questions such as - how far can sex alone can take a relationship; and do words add to or detract from love? Another theme is that of role playing, on the stage and in life.
Both Fox and Rylance are superb in their scenes together; and Timothy Spall is excellent as Claire's talkative, down-to-earth husband. But I confess to finding Claire's friend Betty (Marianne Faithfull) a baffling character. Some sequences, particularly those involving Jay's friend Victor (Alastair Galbraith) and gay French barman Ian (Philippe Calvario), seem simply to be padding. Possibly, Chereau felt the need to insert personalities and scenes from Kureishi's books, even though these were not relevant to the central Claire-Jay situation. Finally, yes, the over-hyped explicit sex is necessary for the movie to work.
"We better not go too far, we'll loose money" is the bottom line in Hollywood. The raw and and utterly believable sex scenes are the symbol in this independent film for the sincerity and genuine attempt by the filmmakers to tell a story about how people might really behave under certain conditions.
That being said, the story line becomes harder to accept as the plot unfolds. Even tho the acting is superb by every player, the more that happened, the more distanced I became. Conflict between characters and their motivation became just more and more unbelievable, even irritating. You see the writer pushing and pushing the storyline until you don't care about the story anymore, instead of being taken in and moved, as one should be. (In spite of the writing, the film is definitely worth seeing and nevertheless refreshing in the face of Star Vehicle Movies, Action Junk, as well as guarded and censored sex scenes that are the standard fare of Hollywood standards today).
This film was made with the sentiment of "Let's make a good movie, no holds barred, no matter what" instead of "Make a movie about whatever you want, but make sure its a hit at the box office".
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- WissenswertesThe first mainstream English language film with an unsimulated sex scene to be passed uncut in Great Britain.
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Ian: You know when you're with someone there's only a very short time when you can really give each other things for free... with neither of you having to ask. Because later on all you do is make demands of each other. Perhaps the only difference between her and all the rest is that she's asking you for nothing.
- Alternative VersionenTo achieve an R-rating, the original two-hour long film was cut down to just 107 minutes in the U.S. and almost all the real sex acts were cut. The Blu-Ray versions, however, restore the original running length.
- SoundtracksA Night In
Performed by Tindersticks
Composed by Stuart Staples, Dickon Hinchliffe, Dave Boulter, Neil Fraser (as Neil Frazer), Mark Colwill and Alasdair Macauley
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Box Office
- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 405.094 $
- Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
- 33.808 $
- 21. Okt. 2001
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 2.672.527 $
- Laufzeit1 Stunde 59 Minuten
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- 2.35 : 1