The Comfort of Strangers

Year: 1990

Country: USA, Italy, UK

Tagline: The appearance of innocence. The heat of desire...  »

Plot: An English couple holiday in Venice to sort out their relationship. There is some friction and distance between them, and we also sense they are being watched. One evening, they lose their way looking for a restaurant, and a stranger invites them to accompany him. He plies them with wine and grotesque stories from his childhood. They leave disoriented, physically ill, and morally repelled. But, next day, when the stranger sees them in the piazza, they accept an invitation to his sumptuous flat. After this visit, the pair find the depth to face questions about each other, only to be drawn back into the mysterious and menacing fantasies of the stranger and his mate.The movie follows an English couple who holiday in Venice to sort out their relationship and end up fighting for their lives when they encounter mysterious white-suited Italian Robert and his troubled wife.

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