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what a mish-mash! , 22 February 2008
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The Night Porter
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling
Director: Liliana Cavani
Certificate: 
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Really! I love Dirk Bogarde as an intelligent presence on any screen and Charlotte Rampling is, even today, still very lovely, but this film doesn't seem to know where its going. I really didn't understand why these ex-Nazis were wasting time in trying to expiate their sins in the way they did - it could have been done a lot simpler. I still don't understand what the relationship between camp guard and (?) victim was about - kinky? Didn't need to be. Wasn't explanatory. She didn't need to join in the way she did - surely she should have fainted at the sight of him and planned a well-crafted revenge thereafter. Very confusing and wooden, and unsatisfactory. Perhaps the relationship of Ralph Fiennes, as camp commander, and thehousemaid in 'Schindler's List' should give a better idea of how it should have looked and felt. Could have done with a re-write!
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