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Writer:
Frank Howson (written by)
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Release Date:
24 October 1991 (Australia) more
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Love and Murder. A dangerous game. more
Awards:
2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
A Bolt From the Blue
 (From IFC. 28 July 2009, 1:45 PM, PDT)

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Darkened By Its Stylistics, To Its Benefit. more (3 total)

Cast

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John Savage ... Michael Bergman
Kerry Armstrong ... Michelle Harris
Jeffrey Thomas ... Larry Harris

Guy Pearce ... Sharp
Rebecca Rigg ... Debbie McCormick
Rhys McConnochie ... Bill Stockton
Nicholas Bell ... Piggott

Jacek Koman ... Bergman's Butler
Stacey Valkenburg ... Young Michelle
Jo Pearson ... News Anchorperson
Ian Scott ... Holmes
Stephen Whittaker ... Roberts
Des Connors ... Evening newscaster
Paige Livingston ... Penny Ballard
Dale Stevens ... Stockton's New Secretary
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Runtime:
96 min | USA:97 min
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Darkened By Its Stylistics, To Its Benefit., 16 July 2005
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Author: rsoonsa (rsoonsa@bandbbooks.com) from Mountain Mesa, California

Style and substance, seldom compatible elements across categories of creative expression, are at odds within this Australian production where strong exploration of the former by director Frank Howson clearly wins out over his own shallowly constructed screenplay. When first seen, Michelle Harris (Kerry Armstrong), executive secretary to the managing director of a large stock brokerage firm in Melbourne, is ostensibly happily married, but her jobless husband's low level of self-esteem causes her to lose interest in their physical relationship, simultaneously increasing her vulnerability to her employer's most influential client, American Michael Bergman (John Savage), with whom she begins an affair. Larry (Jeffrey Thomas), her spouse, not oblivious to a personality change in his love bewitched wife, takes what he perceives as needed steps to shield Michelle from Bergman, but following Larry's dubitable suicide, she becomes the financier's mistress although as she lives with him it becomes apparent to her that her lover is clearly not what he originally appeared to be. Ruthlessness to rivals in his business dealings is a trademark of Bergman who additionally uses blackmailing methods to corral potential foes and politicians, yet an even more significant lesson to be learned by Michelle is that seduction of women is a sport for Bergman, and since she has forsaken all that she formerly valued in order to follow him, she seeks for a way to escape what has become a snare. Visually there are few dull moments in this film, for even when a highly predictable script dictates the action, baroque compositions chosen by Howson provide more than enough creative camera and lighting imagery to offset what is essentially a trite, often uncomfortably so, tale of a scorned woman seeking revenge. The twitchy Savage offers a typically mannered performance while Armstrong's strongest moments are when her character is startled, which is frequently, Thomas winning acting honours here as a cuckold who defies his fate; versatile Howson composes several songs for the production ( sung by Guy Pearce, cast as a Bergman henchman) and notice shall be given to the sets, ably designed by Jan Dowding and Bernadette Wynack, and to top-flight work from costumer Aphrodite Kondos, for a film wherein visuals and scoring happily triumph over the scenario.

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