The Kreutzer Sonata
Director: Bernard Rose
Country: USA
Year of Production: 2008
SynopsisThe second instalment of a planned trilogy loosely based on the works of the great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, acclaimed British director Bernard Rose (CANDYMAN) follows the remarkable IVANS XTC with THE KREUTZER SONATA, a shocking new film set in contemporary Hollywood that graphically emphasizes Tolstoy's brutally controversial views on the corrupting power of sex and accompanying jealousy. Featuring bold, brilliant and utterly compelling performances from Elisabeth Röhm (Law & Order, Heroes) as the beautiful and talented pianist Abigail, and Danny Huston (X Men: Wolverine, The Proposition), as the wealthy philanthropist and enraged husband Edgar, who is consumed by feelings of carnal desire and violent jealousy, the KREUTZER SONATA explores the rich complexities of love, sex, obsession and paranoia in a raw, emotionally and sexually charged thriller. Please click a thumbnail to view the full-sized image:
More InfoReviews
"This Sonata's passion is off the scale... terrific... Huston is magnificent... penetrating... It's a film that never shies from dangerous emotions, sexual frankness or sheer terror"
"startling... a compellingly threatening picture of poisonous jealousy and explosive psycho-sexual rage. Hats off to Danny Huston"
"Bold, brilliant and exhilarating... Bernard Rose... is showing stunning form with his modern adaptations of Tolstoy... a superbly creative adaptation"
"passion, pain and exquisite erotic agonies seep into the spaces between the notes. Danny Huston... is on superb form here... nervous tension... vibrates in the film like a static charge. The sex is raw, angry, animalistsic and suffused with almost as much hate as love."
"It's got it all: graphic sex, spurting blood, classical music... shocking"
"superbly directed, brilliantly written... exerts a vice-like grip and doesn't let go... riveting performances... Highly recommended"
"sex and violins... explicit rumpo... an arresting sight... a terrifyingly tense final act"
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