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The Comfort of Strangers is no different. But I found this erotic thriller much more interesting due to the use of sex in this film. I assume that Schrader, by way of Ian McEwan, is commenting on the ways in which sex for some people is viewed as a source of pleasure.
Jan 1, 1981 · The Comfort Of Strangers (1981) is a chilling psychological thriller about Colin and Mary, an attractive, if rather self-absorbed, unmarried couple who are vacationing in an unnamed city that has all the old-world markers of Venice. One night, while looking for a restaurant, they get lost in the narrow, labyrinthine alleys and run into Robert ...
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British Playwright Harold Pinter’s screenplay THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS is, of course, a misnomer: the “comfort” leads to death and the stranger is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Pinter’s plays, so-called “comedies of menace,” belonging to the “theatre of the absurd,” use apparently commonplace characters and settings but are ...
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Other than those faults "The Comfort of Strangers" is an absolutely tremendous and amazingly involving film with a brilliant script by Pinter which allows for more nuanced characters and a different approach than McEwan's novella featured, and superb work by Paul Schrader as director, who uses Venice brilliantly her to create mood and ambiance ...
