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Besieged (1999)
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Two disparate worlds come together in thoroughly unexpected ways in this intriguing film directed by Academy Award winner Bernardo Bertolucci. The opening sequence, in an impoverished, unnamed African dictatorship, is painfully intense: we watch in horror as the movie's heroine, Shandurai (serenely beautiful Thandie Newton), witnesses the brutal arrest of her husband, a rebellious reformer. Then suddenly we are transported to Rome, where Shandurai is studying medicine and cleaning house for a reclusive, wealthy pianist, Mr. Kinsky (David Thewlis). Knowing nothing of her past, Kinsky falls hopelessly in love with Shandurai. She finds his...
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David Thewlis has done some excellent work in the past (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Naked, Seven Years in Tibet, The New World, The Kingdom of Heaven) and we look forward to seeing him again in a few months in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. He does another outstanding job in Besieged, as a...
(complete Besieged review by Movie Addict)
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