Il Portiere di notte [The Night Porter] (DVD)

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... they demand that she be eliminated. It’s what they have been doing for some time, conspiring to murder all the potential victims of their crimes. It’s a crass story, badly acted and poorly scripted. A few erotic images involving SS uniforms, rape and torture and thrown in to spice things up a bit and cause the inevitable controversy that flared up after the film’s release in 1974. But the plot is unbelievable and becomes increasingly ridiculous as the film plods along to its inevitable conclusion. ...more

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Il Portiere di notte [The Night Porter] (DVD): Vacuous rubbish (378 words)
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Dirk Bogarde is Max an SS officer, Charlotte Rampling one of his victims. Now, after the end of the war, Max is the seedy night porter of a hotel in Vienna, living in the shadows and in fear of being found by the authorities searching for war criminals. She is the wife of a successful conductor on tour in Europe. When she and her husband arrive in Vienna they come, unwittingly, to stay in Max’s hotel. After a tense few days Bogarde and Rampling renew their sado-masochistic sexual relationship. She is, of course, a potential key witness should Max ever come to trial. When his Nazi friends discover that she and Max are together again they demand that she be ... Read the complete review

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