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Killing Me Softly [2002] - Nicci French [DVD]
enlarge	Director: Kaige Chen Actors: Heather Graham, Joseph Fiennes, Natascha McElhone, Ulrich Thomsen, Ian Hart Studio: Pathe Distribution Category: DVD List Price: ~~£12.99~~ Buy New: £2.49 as of 22/11/2009 18:49 GMT details You Save: £10.50 (81%) New (17) Used (7) from £1.85 Seller: william_barola Rating: 8 reviews Sales Rank: 14612 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Region: 2 Discs: 1 Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 96 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5060002831236 ASIN: B00008OP5P Theatrical Release Date: June 5, 2002 Release Date: April 7, 2003 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review Any film aiming to be Hitchcockian has a lot to live up to: with its blonde heroine, eerie atmosphere and sweeping score, IKilling Me Softly/I sets itself up for a fall even before the plot kicks in. Stylishly filmed by Chen Kaige (the Chinese director's first English feature), this London-set thriller is based on Nicci French's novel about a young American woman, Alice (Heather Graham), and her passionate affair with the mysterious stranger Adam (Joseph Fiennes). Leaving her partner and surrendering herself to Adam's sexual experimentation, Alice only begins to suspect something's not quite right once she's married him and a series of ominous notes arrive through the post. Add to this Adam's mysterious first marriage, an intriguing locked cupboard and enigmatic sister (Natasha McElhone), and Alice begins to look for a way out, in fear of her life. p The fact that Alice sleeps with a stranger at the drop of a hat makes for a shaky premise, but what ensues can only be described as complete nonsense, with the plot twisting its way to a ludicrous climax. Smirking his way through the film, Fiennes is as miscast as Graham, who's clearly there for the soft porn love scenes and not the ones where she's a reporter replete with big spectacles. Graham in the buff is certainly going to attract a few viewers, but for the rest of us IKilling Me Softly/I is just too plain daft to bother with. p BOn the DVD:/B IKilling Me Softly/I offers a sparse set of extras, including a featurette that repeats most of the footage seen in the trailer, also included. Short interviews with cast members Graham, Fiennes and McElhone can be found here alongside comments from director Kaige and some footage of the shoot itself, all of which add little to the overall package. --ILaura Bushell/I

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 8 1 2 Next » killing me softly, a wonderfully filmed story December 12, 2003 P. Hanbury (tout le monde) 7 out of 16 found this review helpful I must admit i only brought this at first because i wanted to see heather Graham get her kit off. The film has recieved some poor ratings and press. However i was i admit surprised by this film. It was wonderfully filmed. The cinematography was often wonderful. Some lovely countryside featured etc. br / br /Further Joseph Fines and Heather Graham, Both put in wonderful performances. I really enjoyed this film. I would say that this is a rare and often overlooked Gem which i am happy to add to my collection. The Director is to be congratulated. br / br /To conclude, this film beautiful. As i mentioned some scenes with Heather Graham (Alice) and Joeseph Phines are srikingly photographed and endearing. Nice one heather br / br /Because of the responses from others ive been asked to update: Thus i will : Update Juliet 2006 : Most critisisms of this film seem to come from those who had read the book before. And its always difficult to get the same pleasure. Ben Hur and the name of the rose and films of there ilk being the exception. I have watched the film again and still think Phines and heather Graham are wonderful. I will however concede that the english girl playing Phine's sister is extremely wooden and wrongly cast for her role. But it does not stop you enjoying the film. And anyway i never grow tired of seeing Heathers chest. Pete London is beautiful for passionate love December 9, 2004 Jacques COULARDEAU (OLLIERGUES France) 3 out of 11 found this review helpful This film is quite gripping in many ways, but particularly so in one : it tricks us into believing something that is nothing but a preconceived idea. Love may be a very strong, sudden and even violent passion. It is shown in all its splendor and beauty. When love becomes passionate it can lead to extreme adventures, and in this film it does, though moderately for the audience not to be unsettled too much. Just enough for the audience to believe that this passion can lead the man, who is becoming suspicious and jealous, to dream of, and to have dreamed of and even performed, a crime or even several to prevent a woman, or maybe several, from going away, abandoning him. So why not another one. The present wife of this man galops into this avenue without even thinking or pondering the issue one single minute : after all it is nothing but the rewriting or the remake of Blue Beard. Panick and fear. And of course she runs into the arms of the real criminal, the one who has really eliminated so many women, out of jealousy of course. But the real end is more than ambiguous. Passion is transient and cannot last very long. Sooner or later it wears out and it does in this case, of course, after such a fright. So the ending is sad though we may feel relieved. Such men who inspire extreme and total love must be rejected and isolated. A sign that our world is not standing on its feet. But the suspense is quite well built if you just try to let yourself be taken along by the story and not to anticipate what may be coming, the end in other words. Strange sort of love story... June 6, 2006 FAMOUS NAME (UNITED KINGDOM) 2 out of 7 found this review helpful br /This is a really weird film for me. I've only ever seen it twice, and it having been some time since I saw it the first time around, I was surprised to find that on my second viewing, I'd only really remembered about the first twenty minutes or so - a part which had stuck in my mind quite vividly. br / br /Despite its suspense-type thriller content, along with some really explicit scenes featuring 'kinky' sex, ironically, the most memorable moments in this film for me are the romantic ones. The movie gets off to a great start, and gives the viewer the misconception they're in for a real soppy love story, about two complete strangers falling in love at first sight - but it's far more complex than that - and a lot more exciting too; falling for a strange dishy guy with kinky sex fetishes and then marrying him - all in a space of a few days! The haunting soundtrack also helps this movie along. I've not read the book and so know nothing about the author, but the whole story is a little mixed up and has a distinctly 'unclear' ending, but somehow the film is memorable for more simpler reasons. Not THAT bad! February 3, 2009 Alison Mallaghan (France) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful Having read the book, I kept comparing the two, but I don't think the film was as bad as some reviewers are making out. Seeing it on TV (Fiver) I rather think some of the sex scenes were cut, thus losing the essence of the relationship between Alice and Adam. However, changing the ending meant that a lot of the plot didn't make sense. When Adam was the killer, the rape plotline and the K2 deaths made sense. I didn't think the casting was that bad. Read the book - it's much better! Killing me Slowly's a better title August 22, 2004 3 out of 6 found this review helpful This movie was not the worst I have seen, as the storyline had a good basis, but the casting was terrible! I've always thought Heather Graham was a poor actress and this just proved it! Joseph Fiennes makes an unconvincing "baddy", and he doesn't do much in the totty factor! overall, good story, bad acting! the Stars are definitly not for the cast! Showing reviews 1-5 of 8 1 2 Next »

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