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The Book of Revelation (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 12
Fresh: 9
Rotten:3
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Starring: Tom Long, Greta Scacchi, Colin Friels
Starring: Tom Long, Greta Scacchi, Colin Friels
Director: Ana Kokkinos
Director: Ana Kokkinos
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Reviews for The Book of Revelation
There's a fine and committed performance by Long, who looks like a pretty, young Nick Cave, but the women are never anything more than agents of the central conceit, the missing link in an otherwise psychologically intriguing film.
A bit like an album by The Doors: faultlessly good-looking and loaded with dramatic import. Then you get up close and it turns out there's not much there at all.
Shot like a lush, hypnotic waking dream, it's boldly beautiful and plays some half-smart games with sex, power and gender politics.
The Book of Revelation is interesting enough to hope Kokkinos follows it with something equally daring.
An adaptation of novelist Rupert Thomson’s erotic mystery/thriller that fails to find a visual or narrative equivalent for the book’s elegant prose and lubricious mysteries.
The film has an intriguing take on sexual power, and Greta Scacchi is excellent.
Clearly, with its unabashedly honest nudity, steamy scenes of bondage, masturbation, sodomy and even some old-fashioned fucking, this is no flick for kids.
The premise is provocative but the film lingers too long on the scenes of imprisonment, turning them into a kind of soft-porn performance art and leaving the emotional aftershocks less satisfyingly explored.
Even the pivotal weakness of [Tom] Long's dull persona can't undermine the pic's determination to confront auds intellectually and emotionally.
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