Dark movie, director Ken Russell turns the headlights on and off, and he uses loud colors. He creates a very disturbing and gloomy atmosphere and tells the story of China Blue, a prostitute by night and a hard working business-women by day in gross pictures and provoking dialogue.
A steamy Kathleen Turner shows everything (including talent). With her as leading lady Ken Russell portrays and embodies human abysms and loneliness in a way you never saw before. Brilliant work, wonderful actors, a story full of suspense.
"Crimes of Passion" is what "Basic instinct" and "Eyes wide Shut" tried to be (and failed): a provocative masterpiece ! This movie sails close to the wind and is a cocktail of elegant sex and brilliant character study of 4 very different persons: China Blue the whore (Kathleen Turner), the crazy priest (Anthony Perkins) who wants to "rescue" her, family-lowing Bobby Grady (John Laughlin), wo is China Blue's suitor, because he and his wife don't have sex any more and Amy (Annie Potts), Bobby's frigid wife.
Kathleen Turner and Anthony Perkins are brilliant, but it is John Laughlin who steals the show as Bobby Grady. This part is one of the most likeable and most versatile characters in movie history and John Laughlin is just brilliant. Unfortunately his acting career went somewhere...but not to the A-list of movie-stardom.
I want to mention Louise Sorel's small part of Claudia in a scene, where she and her husband want China Blue for a love triangle. She is just great in it. Look for her sitting in a big limousine.
8 out of 10
A steamy Kathleen Turner shows everything (including talent). With her as leading lady Ken Russell portrays and embodies human abysms and loneliness in a way you never saw before. Brilliant work, wonderful actors, a story full of suspense.
"Crimes of Passion" is what "Basic instinct" and "Eyes wide Shut" tried to be (and failed): a provocative masterpiece ! This movie sails close to the wind and is a cocktail of elegant sex and brilliant character study of 4 very different persons: China Blue the whore (Kathleen Turner), the crazy priest (Anthony Perkins) who wants to "rescue" her, family-lowing Bobby Grady (John Laughlin), wo is China Blue's suitor, because he and his wife don't have sex any more and Amy (Annie Potts), Bobby's frigid wife.
Kathleen Turner and Anthony Perkins are brilliant, but it is John Laughlin who steals the show as Bobby Grady. This part is one of the most likeable and most versatile characters in movie history and John Laughlin is just brilliant. Unfortunately his acting career went somewhere...but not to the A-list of movie-stardom.
I want to mention Louise Sorel's small part of Claudia in a scene, where she and her husband want China Blue for a love triangle. She is just great in it. Look for her sitting in a big limousine.
8 out of 10