Nine and a Half Weeks (1985)
Country: US
Technical: col 113m
Director: Adrian Lyne
Cast: Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger
Synopsis:
Two professional singletons in New York embark on an affair whose life blood is the exploration of new and extreme forms of sex in unusual places.
Review:
What Woody Allen reduced to a fifteen minute sketch in one of his films is here served up at extreme length with a mindless and pounding musical track. Resembling one of its director's commercials or the pop video-inspiring Flashdance that preceded it, the film fails on even the most elementary level to engage the viewer in its characters or something resembling a story, hanging its desultory screenplay onto the traditional 'doomed romance' plot. In short, a pretentious con for trendies and thrill-seekers, without even the titillation to recommend it.
Country: US
Technical: col 113m
Director: Adrian Lyne
Cast: Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger
Synopsis:
Two professional singletons in New York embark on an affair whose life blood is the exploration of new and extreme forms of sex in unusual places.
Review:
What Woody Allen reduced to a fifteen minute sketch in one of his films is here served up at extreme length with a mindless and pounding musical track. Resembling one of its director's commercials or the pop video-inspiring Flashdance that preceded it, the film fails on even the most elementary level to engage the viewer in its characters or something resembling a story, hanging its desultory screenplay onto the traditional 'doomed romance' plot. In short, a pretentious con for trendies and thrill-seekers, without even the titillation to recommend it.
Country: US
Technical: col 113m
Director: Adrian Lyne
Cast: Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger
Synopsis:
Two professional singletons in New York embark on an affair whose life blood is the exploration of new and extreme forms of sex in unusual places.
Review:
What Woody Allen reduced to a fifteen minute sketch in one of his films is here served up at extreme length with a mindless and pounding musical track. Resembling one of its director's commercials or the pop video-inspiring Flashdance that preceded it, the film fails on even the most elementary level to engage the viewer in its characters or something resembling a story, hanging its desultory screenplay onto the traditional 'doomed romance' plot. In short, a pretentious con for trendies and thrill-seekers, without even the titillation to recommend it.