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| Wild Side [1998] | ![Wild Side [1998]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518RSC8Z2SL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Donald Cammell
Actors: Christopher Walken, Joan Chen, Anne Heche, Steven Bauer, Allen Garfield
Studio: Tartan Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (6 reviews)
Sales Rank: 20193
Format: Full Screen, Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Media: DVD
Running Time: 111 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5023965331120
ASIN: B000050GOU
Release Date: November 20, 2000
Theatrical Release Date: 1998
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 Awful disappointment December 26, 2007
I'd been looking forward to watching this film for a long time. The problem seems not to do with the original cut. The director's version doesn't alter fact that the script is awful and corny, the camera work annoyingly trying to be arty. The photography itself seems unfocused and the sound is almost inaudible in some scenes.
How people use the term `noir' to describe this baffles me. On face value with the cast and the plot one might be forgiven for expecting something special. I suggest you expect a poor made-for-tv drama to avoid disappointment.
 brilliant! September 19, 2005
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a great film. Anne Heche and Joan Chen are brilliant as is Christopher Walken.
Alex (Anne Heche) works in a bank but is forced in prostitution to pay of her debts. One of her clients is Bruno (Walken) who becomes obsessed with Alex's performance in bed. Bruno sends his bodyguard to find out if Alex is with the police but it turns out the bodyguard is the one who is with the police.
Alex meets Virginia (Joan Chen), who is Bruno's estranged wife, and they fall for each other. The love story between the two women is beatiful and they realise they don't need men now they have found each other.
The DVD has a lot of special features including interviews with Anne Heche and Donald Cammell, the director. There is also a short film, The Argument.
This film is great buy it!
Brilliant March 20, 2003
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
What can you say. This film is superb. The music by Sakamoto is wonderful. The editing and the performances are weird I know, Christopher Walken is always watchable. Buy this, you won't regret it. But not for those who liked Titanic.
God Bless Frank Mazzola September 4, 2002
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
Frank Mazzola, the film's editor, is the man who brought this version of Cammel's vision to the screen. We will never know if this is what Donald really wanted but it is likely to be a much better guess than that made by the producers Nu Image with their straight to video softcore lesbian erotica version that got the late Mr Cammel so upset. This film is probably one of the best movies made during the nineties. Cammel has drawn astonishing, richly nuanced performances from the four main players in tightly woven set pieces. Most notable are Walken's money launderer Bruno, whose hysterical paranoia is both hilarious and disturbing, and Steven Bauer's extremely menacing undercover agent/ macho thug Tony, masquerading as Bruno's bodyguard. The film also includes Ryuichi Sakamoto's wonderfully atmospheric soundtrack that breathes gently over the film. The mise en scene is beautifully set up, colours radiate passionately throughout the set design and works brilliantly with the intense sexual cat and mouse play in the film, every emotion delicately registered from body to voice. The movie is a complex richly woven tapestry of sex and greed, power and violence; with a fathomless perspicacity that rewards multiple repeat viewings to point that, to be frank (no pun intended), if you don't like this film in any way you should probably stop watching movies altogether.
A good actor does not make a good film February 28, 2002
3 out of 24 found this review helpful
In my ignorance I assumed that because Christopher Walken was in this film, I would like it. How wrong I was. Nothing wrong with Walkens performance - superb as ever. The problem with this film is that it was awful. The camera work - sickening docu-drama style, the colours - garish, the music - very cheesey. Something about the way this was filmed made it look like a half-baked arthouse movie with outdated techniques like slow-motion and over-used flashbacks to something that happened like 5 minutes ago. Red blooded males like me will however enjoy a certain scene in this film, but the two leading ladies are frankly nobodies and both quite unlikeable. Maybe thats the main problem with this film - you just cant like any of the characters. In conclusion: a good plot idea, wasted in a cr*ppy film. A real effort is required to sit through the whole film because it really is a pile of cr*p!
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