The Entertainment Factor: DVD & Blu-ray: THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS (1990) Starring Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson, Helen Mirren and Christopher Walken

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Product Description: Adapting the acclaimed novel by Ian McEwan, playwright and screenwriter Harold Pinter lends his signature unnerving dialogue and air of creeping menace to this spellbinding study of power, control, and the frighteningly thin line between pleasure and pain. Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson are the prey, a beautiful British couple working on their relationship while on holiday in Venice; Christopher Walken and Helen Mirren are the hunters who draw them into the sinister web of their opulent, old-world palazzo.

What plays out is an unsettling, sadomasochistic seduction imbued with an atmosphere of sumptuous dread by the elegantly gliding tracking shots of cinematographer Dante Spinotti, lush score by Angelo Badalamenti, and carefully controlled direction of Paul Schrader, who choreographs a mesmerizing pas de quatre of sustained erotic and emotional tension.

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Director: Paul Schrader

Starring: Rupert Everett, Helen Mirren, Natasha Richardson, Christopher Walken, Manfredi Aliquo

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Runtime: 107 min

Rating: R

Language: English

Studio: Criterion

Home Video Release Date: August 18, 2020

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DVD - Criterion Collection

Blu-ray - Criterion Collection

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Codec: MPEG-2
Resolution: 480i
Aspect Ratio: 1.67:1
Encoding Format: 16:9
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.67:1
Region: Region A/1

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DVD: Dolby Digital Mono
Blu-ray: LPCM Mono

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DVD: English SDH

Blu-ray: English SDH

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New interviews with Spinotti, director Paul Schrader, actor Christopher Walken, and editor Bill Pankow
Interviews from 1981 and 2001 with novelist Ian McEwan and actor Natasha Richardson
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PLUS: An essay by critic Maitland McDonagh