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The Night Visitor[/B] (1971)
A surprising & delightful watch! The small cast includes Max Von Sydow and Liv Ulmann, BUT it's not a Bergman film...it's a chilling psycho-thriller from Laslo Benedek. Having a Bergmanesque feelings of despair and anguish, it also added Hitchcockian suspense from start to finish with a good twist ending like the old Twilight Zone or Ray Bradbury mystery stories.
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Cannot wait for this one, hopefully Netflix will make it available...
And V, thanks as always for the rec .
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Sexy Beast (2000). Let me just say the obvious: Ben Kingsley. That performance was bar none one of the most powerful ever. That he should be feared by everyone and every thing just oozes out of character. The violence which emanated out of his body at times was superb. And while he steals the show, the rest of our characters are no slouches. Ray Winstone portrayed the counterpoint to Kingsley perfectly, doing his part to keep his demons in check, literally. That "gal" used to run with these psychopaths hints to the viewer that he might not have always been such a pussy cat. Ian McShane should also get some love here, for his subdued portrayal is of a sociopath yet to be provoked, but the growling bear that might emerge could threaten to make even Kingsley's character cower. Oh yeah, the story itself was strong, the direction more than competent. Even the symbolism was sublime. Mercie beaucoup.
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