The Comfort Of Strangers

15 Dec 1993

Director: Paul Schrader

Italy, UK

1990

104 min

Paul Schrader’s film of Ian McEwan’s novel adapted by Harold Pinter is a strange and unsettling thriller set in Venice where Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson are second honeymooning. They encounter the aristocratic Robert who is the catalyst for what remains of the couple’s sexual feelings.