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Full Body Massage
USA 1995
produced by Julie Ahlberg, Michael Nolin, Robert Littman (executive) for Littman-Gurskis-Nolin Productions/Showtime
directed by Nicolas Roeg
starring Mimi Rogers, Bryan Brown, Christopher Burgard, Elizabeth Barondes, Gareth Williams, Patrick Neil Quinn, Heather Gunn, Laura Saldivar (= Gabriella Hall), Brian McLane, William Fuller, Lynette Bennett, Rachel Nolin, Michael Edmonds, Ross McKerras
written by Dan Gurskis, music by Harry Gregson-Williams
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Nina (Mimi Rogers), a successful art dealer, expects her regular
masseur, young and handsome Douglas (Christopher Burgard), for another
massage session at her luxury home - and is quite a bit disappointed when
instead of him, Fitch (Bryan Brown), a fourty-something eccentric with
average looks shows up, disappointed because she had regular erotic
fantasies about Douglas. But in Fitch's defense, he sure knows his trade,
and while he massages her and explains his philosophy in regards to his
vocation, he also helps Nina to understand her life better, and she feels
more and more comfortable lying essentially naked in front of this
stranger and letting him touch her all over - maybe just a bit too
comfortable ... Now of course, in comparison to Nicolas Roeg's
eccentric masterpieces like Don't Look Now, The
Man Who Fell To Earth, Insignificance or Track
29, this movie looks positively tame, but taken by its own merits,
this is quite a fascinating movie, one that mixes philosophy with
eroticism, and that despite fair amounts of nudity never drifts off in the
purely sexual let alone sleazy - and what's more, it turns what could
easily have been a heavy-handed and overly brainy into a sensual
experience, also helped of course thanks to the film's two leads who
develop palpable chemistry over the film's running time. And all of this
is making this movie quite a worthy watch.
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