Damage

Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche do some "Damage" in this 1992 film also starring Miranda Richardson, Rupert Graves, Ian Bannen and Leslie Caron. Irons is a British cabinet minister who falls for his son's girlfriend (Binoche), a deeply disturbed young... Full review

i need ''damage'',it's the best intimate movie about love and drama,with this jeremy irons an excelent feelings for an actor at his age... Full review

People love dumb and dumber and harshly criticize Damage. I just don't understand it. Damage is an excellent film from the acting, to location, storyline very well done.... Full review

This isn't the best movie ever made, however now many years after seeing it I still remember where I saw it (up the hill in Seattle) and I've been a fan of Juliette Binoche ever since and scenes from it still... Full review

Let me start out by saying I have true admiration for Jeremy Irons. I also somewhat liked the book Damage. However, it did not translate well into movie format for me. I think it was the sex scene. It was too... Full review

I found "Damage" to be very authentic in its depictions. At the outset, the family seems perfectly normal, insular, self-absorbed, bored by lack of challenge and predictable patterns of action whether socially or sexually. The father is at that dangerous... Full review

I like this movie, not so much because of its analysis of but because of the directness with which it portrays obsessive behavior and the price it demands. All the action struck me as very immediate and real, not contrived... Full review

This movie is really much less shallow than many people criticizing it would think. Actually, I was captivated by it from start to finish. It is understandable that one would question the likeliness of all these events happening, and in... Full review

I don't know. I have read some of the reviews here and some literate folk seem to me to want to wax lyrical about vapor. Meaning, sometimes people get a kick out of writing silly things.If this is the worse... Full review

If you are looking for some sensual erotica, then get ready to 'damage' your expectations. But you can see it for Miranda Richardson. She is brilliant. Especially when she discovers that her husband is having an affair.... Full review

The cast do the best they can with it -....the efforts of its talented cast and director can do little to save the screenplay..... ... Full Review

See, if a movie is about the consequences of repression, the characters risk looking silly when they pop loose. Forced to cut, Malle made his anger clear to anyone who would listen, but what's equally clear is how ludicrous that shot is: The lovers, coitally entangled in a doorway, flop about as if engaged in a game of naked Twister. ... Full Review

Louis Malle's sumptuous Damage casts a true erotic spell; it is one of the few films in recent years to evoke the dizzying pull of sexual obsession from the inside out. For the record: The movie is farfetched - and that's the source of its power. ... Full Review

Though much of "Damage" is interesting, thanks to the initial believability Irons and Binoche are able to lend to the proceedings, the finale is a sappy nonconclusion that undermines everything that has gone before by refusing to deal with the issues raised here. ... Full Review

Miranda Richardson was the best thing about this film.....Jeremy Irons is an expert at obsession.....He is married to Miranda Richardson , with whom he is affectionate but not passionate:....Here, she's less a character than an idol for Jeremy Irons to debase himself in front of.... ... Full Review

Thrash-fest ... Showgirls Second place was awarded to Damage , a 1992 European art-house film starring Jeremy Irons as a lawmaker who has an illicit affair with his son's fiancee, Juliette Binoche. ... Full Article

When Carrie Fisher phoned Candice Bergen to rave about Louis Malle's Damage , Bergen said, ''But where did you see it? We were hoping you'd be at the premiere.'' That's when Bergen, who's married to Malle, found out that Damage... ... Full Article

It's not that "Damage" is a Great Misunderstood Classic. But despite its unevenness, it deserves its own audience. Based on Josephine Hart's brutal novel, the story's about a bizarre extramarital affair between middle-aged politician Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche. Doctor-turned ... Full Article

On a Sunday in March at the palatial French Embassy in London, tempers and tensions are running high. Daylight saving time has just begun, and both the cast and crew of Damage , already tired, have lost an hour's sleep. ... Full Article