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Deadly Virtues: Love.Honour.Obey.
UK / Netherlands 2014
produced by Elliot Grove, Ate de Jong, Suzanne Ballantyne, Elisar Cabrera for Raindance Raw Talent, Mulholland Pictures
directed by Ate de Jong
starring Megan Maczko, Edward Akrout, Matt Barber, Helen Bradbury, Sadie Frost
written by Mark Rogers, music by Fons Merkies, special makeup effects by Dan Martin
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Tom (Matt Barber) has sex with his wife Alison (Megan Maczko) when a
stranger, later identified as Aaron (Edward Akrout), enters their bedroom,
knocks them out, and when they come to, they find themselves tied up, he
in the bathtub like a hostage in a cheap thriller, she in the living room,
in an accomplished pose with her rope fixed to the ceiling, like in a
erotic bondage video. And accordingly, while Aaron doesn't get tired of
torturing Tom (like chopping off two of his fingers, pissing on him, and
cutting words into his stomach), his dealings with Alison are much more on
the "erotic" side - but he always stops just short of raping
her. In fact, Aaron claims he wants to make her love him over the course
of the weekend ... which for her is of course totally out of the question
- well, at the beginning at least, eventually Aaron drops his violent
attitude and gets more romantic and also trusting. And while Alison could
still never "love" him, she more and more starts to see how
messed up her marriage actually is and starts to wonder whom she ought to
fear more, the intruder who's cooking her dinner, or her husband tied up
in the bath tub ... An enjoyably mean hostage thriller that
really keeps one guessing, and after the very genre-typical first act
wanders off into a rather unexpected direction to eventually surprise the
audience with a hard-hitting and rather un-foreseeable finale. All that is
made possible not only thanks to a well structured script but also a
directorial effort that finds the right balance between sensationalism and
subtlety without ever going the sleazy route some of the movie might
suggest, and a strong ensemble cast. Pretty cool, actually.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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