The Night Porter / Ночной портье / Il Portiere Di Notte / Der Nachtportier / El portero de noche / Portier de nuit / Un fameux renard / Gece bekçisi (1974) DVDRip |
A controversial and shocking movie? Definitely, and the way some people today profess to be jaded about "The Night Porter" says more about our current culture than about the movie itself. Other persons who experienced the Holocaust first-hand have reacted negatively towards it for its portrayal of a destructive but loving relationship born amidst the Holocaust. Their objections are certainly understandable. There has also been, though, an awful lot of politically-correct garbage and pretentious nonsense written about "The Night Porter," much of which has missed or misinterpreted some of the strongest elements of the movie
Directed by Liliana Cavani,The Night Porter is an experience that will stay with you long after it has finished.Based on an idea Liliana had after interviewing concentration camp survivors about how some people are drawn back to the pain and horror of an event in a form of strange comfort.Young Lucia Atherton(Charlotte Rampling)and her husband arrive at a top hotel where Luica is horrified to discover that the night porter is non other than her ex lover,former concentration camp guard Maximilian Aldofer(Dirk Bogarde).The two had a strange S and M relationship and yet in a strange way for Max at least,it was genuine love and she was spared the gas chambers because of it appearing in strange cabaret routines with other prisoners.
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 The story is simple enough: an opera-conductor's work takes him to Vienna, where he and his wife Lucia stay in an elegant but somehow decadent hotel. Here she recognizes the night porter as the concentration camp guard who had abused her when she was a teen-age inmate. The expectation is that she'll call the cops, but no: she abandons her husband, he quits his job, and the two throw themselves into a doomed and passionate amour-fou.
       В Советском Союзе за просмотр фильма можно было попасть в места не столь отдаленные. Уже в начале 90-х (просмотр был в только что открывшихся видеосалонах) фильм был очень популярен. В Италии фильм был разрешен для просмотра зрителями старше 18 лет, во Франции цензуры не было вообще, в США возрастная категория была ограничена 14 годами. Везде в кинотеатрах стояли очереди. В Нью-Йорке, чтобы картина шла лучше, дистрибьютор Лилианы выкупил две страницы в газете «Нью-Йорк Таймс» (критики написали очень негативные материалы, что вызвало интерес). А в Лондоне этот же дистрибьютор сделал премьерный показ для «хороших» критиков (написали как о выдающемся фильме). В итоге зритель пошел в кино уже и без статей. Во время показа в Париже, Лилиане позвонил её друг и сказал, что она сама должна всё увидеть. Она приехала и увидела очередь в кинотеатр. Через несколько дней фильм вышел в Италии, и помощник Кавани сообщил ей, что: «Здесь очереди еще хуже, здесь кости ломают». Сама Лилиан не предполагала, что фильм вызовет такой ажиотаж.
 Set in 1957 Vienna, Liliana Cavileri's film, The Night Porter is a disturbing, mesmerising psycho-drama that viewers seem either to love or loathe. The majority who have written about it seem to loathe it, and one reviewer has even suggested that only individuals who have been sexually abused in childhood would enjoy this film, so it is with some trepidation that I say that The Night Porter is one of my favourite films. (And no, I was definitely not sexually abused in childhood!)
To be sure, this is not a film for everyone. Its subject matter is dark and difficult. The fascinating, if twisted, story is about the revival of an intense relationship that had started in a Nazi concentration camp – between Max, an SS officer and Lucia, one of the inmates. Max is now, in 1957, a night porter in a hotel – the hotel that Lucia happens to visit with her husband, a conductor on an opera tour. Max works at night because he feels shame in the light. Both Lucia and Max are visibly shocked to see each other again, but despite Lucia's consequent strange behaviour, her very nice but insensitive husband does not really notice. Perhaps it is the glaring contrast between her husband's lack of presence, passion and engagement with her, and Max's intense presence and engagement with her, that draws Lucia back in to the relationship with her ex-lover. Max ‘sees’ her; but to her husband, important parts of her are invisible.  Max himself is in conflict about starting up the relationship again, because he senses that if he does, all is lost. His Nazi colleagues are gradually “filing away” all who may have witnessed any of their atrocities, and the last thing Max wants is for them to get their hands on Lucia. Striking up the relationship again is fraught with danger for both of them.
But when, at the opera, he looks at Lucia, and Lucia cannot resist turning her head to meet his gaze (and at a point in the opera where the words being sung are about how love sweetens troubles and all creatures sacrifice to love), Max, too, is drawn inexorably. Despite what some reviewers seem to think, The Night Porter is absolutely not a skin flick, and nor is it a Nazi exploitation flick. But if you dislike films that depict Nazi decadence and cruelty, you might be unable to appreciate or even see the most interesting, compelling themes of the film. It is a film about a relationship. It is about the power of a human connection and a little tenderness in an extreme situation – and about the power of extreme situations to create passion. It is about the psychological power (for some) of an intense relationship over an ordinary, non-passionate one. It is about how intoxicating relationships having an element of control/power can be – and how intoxicating a mixture violence and loving tenderness can be. It is perhaps a warning about the all-consuming and potentially self-destructive power of an intense relationship.  It is also about the fact that even in the most frighteningly non-consensual situation imaginable, it is sometimes possible for a person to experience pleasure.
The relationship is not sadomasochistic in the sense you might imagine if you are familiar with the BDSM community. This film is not a pornographic movie. There are no explicit sex scenes in it. If it is sadomasochistic, its sadomasochism is more in the atmosphere and edgy tension of the film and in the psychology of the main characters than anything else. The Night Porter has some very memorable scenes, and the acting of the main characters is superb. The subtlety and complexity of Charlotte Rampling's Lucia is staggering. It could have been played so badly, but Charlotte Rampling had the courage and the insight and the ability to give a breathtakingly brilliant performance, conveying strength as well as vulnerability, peacefulness as well as terror, intense desire as well as numbness, power and control as well as submission, lightness as well as darkness, heaven as well as hell.  Dirk Bogarde too appears to have put his heart and soul into his role as Max. The tenderness and love he conveys, along with the cruelty and deranged violence, the despair, the joy, the power, the control, and also irritation with his subservient position as a hotel night porter called to serve unworthy guests in trivial and onerous ways, and so many other things, is exquisite.
There are some wonderful shots of post-war Vienna, and the colour palate of the film is predominantly bleak greys. This, and the soundtrack, which has lots of silence interspersed with the odd mournful clarinet or oboe refrain, reflect and enhance the melancholic atmosphere of the film. Liliana Cavani has an eye for psychologically difficult and tension-increasing juxtapositions. In one scene, we hear Mozart's pure and heavenly music about the higher purpose of love and man and wife, while a concentration camp guard buggers a male prisoner, presumably not entirely consensually! In another scene, there is the eroticism of a topless dance together with the ghastly truth that the woman is dancing for the concentration camp guards who hold her and may one day execute her. In another, there is extreme violence mixed with passionate love. It is these kinds of exquisite juxtapositions, and its taboo-violating themes, that make this film so disturbing – and so compelling for those of us who like that kind of thing. The Night Porter is not a perfect film – for one thing, the ending is a bit weak – but it may nevertheless speak to some Taken In Hand readers. It speaks to me, anyway!  Original Title / Оригинальное название: Il Portiere Di Notte Also Known As: The Night Porter / Ночной портье Cast / В ролях: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Ferzetti
   Additional Details Company / Производство: Ital-Noleggio Cinematografico, Lotar Film Productions Duration / Продолжительность: 01:57:28
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