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Damage (1992 film)
Film by Louis Malle
Damage is a 1992 romanticpsychological drama film directed and produced by Louis Malle and starring Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson, Rupert Graves, and Ian Bannen. Adapted by David Hare from the 1991 novel Damage by Josephine Hart, the film is about a British politician (Irons) who has a sexual relationship with his son's fiancée and becomes increasingly obsessed with her. Richardson was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as the aggrieved wife of the film's main character.
Plot
[edit]Dr. Stephen Fleming, a physician who has entered politics and become a minister, lives in London with wife Ingrid and daughter Sally. Their adult son, Martyn, a young journalist, lives elsewhere in London. At a reception, Stephen meets a young woman, Anna Barton, the daughter of a British diplomat and a four-times-married Frenchw
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Emulate Juliette Binoche’s Adulteress in 1992 Film Damage
Fashion & BeautyLessons to Learn
Louis Malle’s 1992 tribute to tormented love and kitten heels is not without contemporary style inspiration, writes Thea Hawlin
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“I have been damaged. Damaged people are dangerous,” says the female protagonist Anna Barton in Josephine Hart’s 1991 novel Damage. Why? “They know they can survive.” Survival is the central theme in Louis Malle’s 1992 film adaptation of Hart’s story, which focuses on an ill-advised love affair and the chaos which follows it. Writer Janet Maslin lauded the film for its “rarefied visual beauty” in her original New York Times review, and the film’s aesthetic pleasure endures today, 25 years after it was first screened.
The film tells the tale of a troubled politician who falls for his son’s fiancée, embarking on a tormented affair that inevitably ends in tragedy. The mysterious woman in question, Anna Barton, is played by the inimi
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Danger Ahead
Justin Stewart on on Juliette Binoche in Damage
Even more than The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), it was the comparably conventional and straightforwardly steamy Damage (1992) that put Juliette Binoche on the radar of American art-house or art-house-adjacent audiences. Her performance as semi-unwitting life-ruiner Anna Barton affixed her place in the mind of boomer audiences as the beautiful, dark, mysterious European other, silently boiling with sexuell desire beneath her wide-set faraway eyes and solemn porcelain visage. It was this very otherness that inspired Louis Malle to cast Binoche as Anna, whose entry into the lives of a proper English family precipitates its detonation. In the bestselling Josephine Hart source novel, Anna fryst vatten likewise English, but as Malle says in the Malle on Malle interview book (edited by Philip French), “I always wanted her to be not English so that she can be a strong contrast to the other characters, who are rooted i