Immortality
by Po-Chih Leong
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Actor: Colin Salmon, Elina Löwensohn, Jack Davenport, Jude Law, Timothy SpallDirector: Po-Chih Leong
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
Producer: Carolyn Choa
Producer: David Lascelles
Producer: Dorothy Berwin
Producer: Laura Julian
Producer: Nigel Stafford-Clark
Producer: Scott Meek
Writer: Paul Hoffman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
Published: 2001-03-01
DVD Release Date: 2001-03-13
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Miramax
Product features:
- To all appearances, Steven Grlscz (Jude Law) is the man who has everything he is handsome, successful, witty and generous. He masterfully seduces the women he selects by analyzing them and swiftly winning their trust. For him, this is not a game. It is a lonely and desperate pursuit for a woman s love he literally cannot live without. When the body of his latest conquest is found at sea, Steven
Description of Immortality
IMMORTALITY - DVD MovieJude Law makes the term emotional vampire literal in this somber, restrained tale of a modern-day bloodsucker in London. As the improbably named medical researcher Steven Grlscz (pronounced "grilsh"), he's a cool charmer who woos lonely women and feeds off them at the height of their emotional intensity. He begins his seduction of Elina Löwensohn (who played a vampire herself in Nadja) just as relentless police detective Timothy Spall starts an investigation of him for the murder of his former lover Kerry Fox. It's the start of an unusual battle of wits.
Equal parts AIDS metaphor, ancient myth with a modern twist, and shrewd mind game, Immortality (originally released as The Wisdom of Crocodiles) is an art-movie interpretation of the vampire myth, too chic and bloodless to be compelling but curiously fascinating in its way. Leong Po-chih directs with clockwork precision and emotional restraint, elegantly creating a handsome but impersonal world where Grlscz's painful need for love is an extreme symptom of modern life. Law plays his part as a fascinating paradox, hiding his feelings and schemes behind a mask of impenetrable ennui that periodically bursts in a gush of sorrow and disappears just as fast, while Löwensohn is almost as hard to read with her angular face and unusual accent. The meticulous detail and cool images make this more a dispassionate mind game than a horror movie, where the ideas never quite come to life but become a curious enigma. --Sean Axmaker