Besieged (1998)
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Description: When an African dictator jails her husband, Shandurai goes into exile in Italy, studying medicine and keeping house for Mr. Kinsky, an eccentric English pianist and composer. She lives in one room of his Roman palazzo, as he beseiges her with flowers, gifts, music, promises and declares his love for her.
Genre: Drama
Studio: New Line Home Entertainment
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12/07/2007 @ 12:00 AM
Bertolucci and co-writer Clare Peploe seem intent on deconstructing the story's interesting elements at every turn, substituting woolliness for clarity, atmospherics for real emotion and an often condescending, armchair-liberal naivete for real political
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07/21/2005 @ 12:00 AM
This is a deeply engrossing, often exquisite film by someone who knows visuals. It's sensory, sensual, handmade.
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03/19/2002 @ 12:00 AM
What an unexpected gift.
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12/19/2001 @ 12:00 AM
Given Bertolucci's impish leanings, the self-referential sequences may merely be gags. If so, they're among a half-dozen others that backfire.
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