The Night Porter

I strongly disagree with the appraisal of this film, which strikes me as "Daily Mail" hysterical in tone. To my mind, this is a masterly work that deals seriously with its admittedly very difficult and disturbing subject matter. On the one hand, the intense relationship between an SS officer and a survivor from one of the death camps. But also the relationship between sexuality, power and self-destruction. Although I do not think that Freud can explain what took place in that dark historical chapter (Marx is closer to the truth with his theory) - it certainly makes fascinating and thought provoking subject matter for film. It is interesting that Freud is so out of fashion - any work of art that touches on his ideas seems to provoke disgust and moral outrage. Are we reverting to the Victorian puritanism that Freud so deftly unpicked? To say the acting is terrible is simply untrue - Bogarde and Rampling both perform superbly. I can only think that you were watching another film with the same name or your sensibilities were so offended that you were incapable of seeing beyond them.