Liebestraum
Time Out says
Figgis's temple-throbbing suspenser is a convoluted tale of lust and jealousy, moodier and more elegiac than his earlier Internal Affairs. Nick Kaminsky (Anderson), an architectural journalist, is summoned to the death-bed of the mother he never knew (Novak). Mooching around the unfamiliar town, he meets old friend Paul (Pullman), a property developer about to demolish a unique cast-iron department store, boarded up since a gruesome '50s murder. He becomes obsessed with the fate of the building, which Paul is sworn to destroy, and with Paul's wife Jane (Gidley), a photographer who records the ruin's final hours. And amid all the dust and debris, is a shadowy, malevolent figure who seems bent on harm towards all three. Kaminsky's adventures in the eerie small town have a Lynchian flavour: there's a paunchy, psychotic police chief, a curious doubling of whorehouse and nun scenes, and the final plot gyrations defy analysis. But the performances are great, especially Gidley's innocent and moving femme fatale.
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Release details
Duration:
113 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Mike Figgis
Screenwriter:
Mike Figgis
Cast:
Kevin Anderson
Pamela Gidley
Bill Pullman
Kim Novak
Graham Beckel
Zach Grenier
Thomas Kopache
Catherine Hicks
Taina Elg
Pamela Gidley
Bill Pullman
Kim Novak
Graham Beckel
Zach Grenier
Thomas Kopache
Catherine Hicks
Taina Elg