Death and the Maiden 1994 123movies

Watch: Death and the Maiden 1994 123movies, Full Movie Online – Paulina Escobar is a political activist whose husband is a prominent lawyer in an unnamed South American country just out of a dictatorship. One day a storm forces her husband to ride home with a neighbor. That chance encounter brings up demons from her past, as she is convinced that the neighbor (Dr. Miranda) was part of the old fascist regime that tortured and raped her, while blindfolded. Paulina takes him captive to determine the truth. Paulina is torn between her psychological repressions and somber memory, Gerardo is torn between his wife and the law, and Dr. Miranda is forced to endure captivity while husband and wife seek out the uncertain truth about the clouded past..
Plot: A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
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Ratings:

	7.3/10 Votes: 25,240
	82% | RottenTomatoes
	72/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 399 Popularity: 7.933 | TMDB

Reviews:

Best work of Polanski after Chinatown and Tess
It is easy to heap praises on a film based on a good play–the subject overwhelms you. It is however not so easy to probe what is attractive in a good film beyond the two obvious elements–the subject and the acting.

I confess that I have loved Polanski’s “The Ninth Gate” for the teaming of Polanski and Wojciech Kilar. This is the second film where the duo weaves magic with great music–beyond the Schubert piece around which the film revolves. The two gentlemen from Poland are truly gifted.

There is another person I admire and that is Rafael Yglesias. When he works on a screenplay, he makes the original look very different. He did that with Hugo’s “Les Miserables” and got brickbats from purists. With Ariel Dorfman’s literary work, the liberties are not so striking.

The cinematography of Tonino Delli Colli, Polanski’s collaborator in “Bitter Moon” is again riveting: cloudy exteriors; stark interiors. The close-ups and long shots of Weaver are those of a lawyer, making the viewer a party to the “court case in progress”

Finally, this is Sigourney Weaver’s finest film and can at best be only compared to her performances in “Gorillas in the Mist” and “Year of Living Dangerously.”

Polanski is a director who has made good and indifferent films. I congratulate him on putting together his team of actors, cameramen, musicians and others to make this one. Only “Chinatown” and “Tess” were more enjoyable than this work of Polanski (including his early cinema).

Death Became Her
(Though this doesn’t contain all surprises or, ah hem, spoilers, it does borderline it. #1 just watch the movie – it is a near-masterpiece, a near perfect suspense thriller/mystery everyone (of age) should see. #2 then read my review. It’s very hard to write about it without giving away too much.)

It was more of a crime that Weaver was neither nominated nor won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1994 than the crimes committed against her in the movie, Death and the Maiden.

Okay, that’s taking it a bit far; what happened to her character was unmistakably HORRIBLE, but she still should’ve won something for her fantastic post-victim performance.

And it was a further crime hardly anyone saw this near-masterpiece of a small/indie film that screams stage play. In fact, when I first saw this many years ago, aside from being immediately enthralled in the story and acting of Weaver, my first reaction was this was meant for the stage – and this was before I did find out, in fact, it was previously a theatre production.

What we have here, in one of my all-time favorite movies, is paranoid Paulina (Weaver) living in isolation with her lawyer-husband, Gerardo (Wilson) in a South American now-“supposedly” free country. Gerardo had a flat, was late for dinner and Paulina’s p|ssed..but it’s not clear up front on why.

Slowly, but absolutely surely…the pieces fall into place, ever so deliberately on why she’s both paranoid and p|ssed. But as bad of a life she makes you believe she has…the past is about to make things a little worst.

Gerardo had a Good Samaritan for his flat tire in the form of Dr. Miranda (Kingsley) and upon the doctor’s admiration for the lawyer who’s about to work for the President on anti-torture criminals – and a few drinks – Paulina’s senses go into overdrive. She is absolutely sure the voice and even smell from the other room where she’s “pretending to be sleeping” that the good ole doc was her captive from awhile back.

I really don’t want to give too much away, but suffice to say, she was kidnapped prior to the movie started and Pauline believes this stranger was (one of) her torturer(s). Eventually, she’s going to make him prove he did it, or his innocence. One way or another.

Literally, I am going to stop here. I’ve given away only 5% of the movie, and I feel that’s too much.

This movie, with literally only three actors, plays out in deep mystery and suspense and you will feel every bit of the pain Weaver wants you to. She is an astonishing actress and proves it here. You would need to be in a 3-person movie.

The other two, Kingsley and Wilson, were also good, but this is Weaver’s show. Her and her character’s redemption or potential healing.

It won’t take too much of your time – it’s relatively short, but it will be worth seeing this wonderful movie and you will see past Ripley (Alien). (Actually, a little too much, at times. Boy, Weaver wanted to get naked for this movie…)

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 43 min (103 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Director Roman Polanski
Writer Ariel Dorfman, Rafael Yglesias
Actors Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Stuart Wilson
Country United Kingdom, France
Awards 5 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Stereo, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Gold, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory Laboratoires Franay Tirages Cinematographiques (LTC), Paris, France
Film Length 2,840 m (Finland)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman EXR 500T 5296)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm