Elevator to the Gallows1958
Both picked by Karen O and Barnaby Clay and Kristin Scott Thomas in the Criterion Closet, and both on Geoff Dyer’s Top 10
The Night Porter
Il portiere di notte
Italy / Italian / 1974 / 1h 58m
- Criterion Collection
- Spine №59
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Synopsis
In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers her former torturer and lover (Dirk Bogarde) working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. Operatic and disturbing, THE NIGHT PORTER deftly examines the lasting social and psychological effects of the Nazi regime.
