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The Comfort of Strangers

The Comfort of Strangers

Paul Schrader, 1990

Spine #1041

Picked by 1 guest

Thriller / Drama / Crime / Fantasy

Criterion Letterboxd TMDB

Directed by Paul Schrader

Written by Harold Pinter

Cinematography Dante Spinotti

Edited by Bill Pankow

Cast Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson, Helen Mirren, Manfredi Aliquò, David Ford, Daniel Franco, Rossana Canghiari

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Glenn Close

“In The Comfort of Strangers, Chris Walken, Natasha Richardson, Rupert Everett, Helen Mirren. Gosh, I gotta watch this again. But I remember this moment: out of the blue, Chris Walken, with all his might, punches Rupert Everett in the stomach, and it’s like, 'Oh!' And it’s so powerful. It’s so shocking. Watch it. And that moment will either shock you or you’ve gotten so inured that it won’t shock you. But it certainly shocked me.”