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zondabez
20Mar12
O amor pode nascer da crueldade. Essa é uma possível explicação para a relação entre um algoz e sua vítima em "O porteiro da noite". Ao unir a beleza de Rampling com a frieza de Bogarde, atores em duas ótimas interpretações, Liliana Cavani constrói um filme obscuro e sem saídas aparentes para o espectador que, aos poucos, mergulha junto com a dupla na loucura de uma relação que tem tudo pra não dar certo. Imperdível.
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T. J. Harman
24Feb12
I know a lot of people don't like this film for various reasons I can't argue with but I love it more everytime I see it. Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling are 2 of my favorite actors and they do some of their best work here.
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skiptracer
15Oct11
this was just such a disaster of a film, which is disappointing, because it had so much potential. poorly written, poorly acted, poorly orchestrated.
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Joshuah
28Sep11
it's very innovative premise is played out within the first 20 minutes... after that this film has no idea where it wants to take these characters, which is eventually no where at all.
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Francisco R.
18Sep11
I found it too detached for its own good, but Cavani's choice of ellipsis in the story fits quite well to her cold third person narrative, now as far as characters go and how involved we grow towards them, this movie suffers. I mean isn't this kind of perverted romance one that should have passion, instead of lifeless drones wanting each other?, why is this Nazi romance being told through the other side of the fence?
Marta
27May11
I was disappointed tbh. I wish they left out the "conspirancy" plot in order to give more space to the way more fascinating and provocatory relationship between Max and the woman. Shame.
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Edwin N
22Aug10
The Night Porter can often be described as a sensationalist attempt at making Nazism and Sadomasochism horrifying in a pretty decadent way, but it's power lies in the 'Stronger than death' psychological subtext that lies in the couple formed by Dirk Bogarde and the incredible Charlotte Rampling and their struggle for sexual tansgression and desire. Cavani's politcal message needed however some more flourishing.
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richmondhill
7Feb10
Not quite the sum of its parts. Some beautifully realised moments of terror - Rampling's frightened expression at the opera, as she spies Bogarde sitting behind –are practically undone by clumsy polemic and and a narrative that ends in a coiled whimper. Eurosleaze with pretensions.
sandwiches
9Dec09
Now I don't want to ruin the movie for anyone, myself included. By does that picture not look like a young Alain Delon in drag?
Daniel
2Feb09
A wonderful and terrifying movie, and one of my all-time favorites. Painfully stark depictions of Nazi cruelty and the twisted relationship between Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling push this film forward, through a world in which detachment and excess have stripped those involved of any traces of genuine human compassion beyond the sadomasochistic.
Phil Worfel
4Dec08
Disturbing and haunting. I couldn't stop thinking about the film for weeks after I'd seen it and was fascinated with the idea of changing a person into a different entity altogether so that their true past life is now truly false. A horror of manipulation and inevitability.