Dangerous Game

Well directed and engaging in depth look into filmmaking/directing and especially acting. It's a cult film with madonna about how reality seeps into and manipulates a film about a disintegrated yuppie couple. We see it being directed and shot, and what happens off camera. Its a tale about excess, morality and loyalty...perfectly and thoughtfully done by master director abel Ferrara (bad lieutenant). He is minor afraid of bad language, drugs and sex...there tools of excess and a misleading element to what extinguishes a relationship. Harvey keitel as the director and cheater and madonna as the actress living a life close to that of her character. James Russo is awesome as the self revelatory admits-thst-hes-human-all-too-human actor and fictional (?) Husband to madonna's character. It's not for everyone but to a film buff, madonna fan, ( her best acting role by far) and movie within a movie fan will dig this. Its unintentionally funny and devilishly dark. Its truth.

The movie's plot on the surface is the making of a movie, a movie whose characters are in crisis. In reality, I believe, 'Dangerous Game' wants to represent the chaos of excess, excess in pleasure and caprice, such that pleasure is no longer pleasing and caprice leads to destruction. The acting of Madonna is not terrible although at times she seems amateurish. Keitel is great, as he excels in the portrayal of a man in the throes of nihilism. But he is suffering because of his deep spiritualism. Franco is very good as well, as the arrogant and self-indulgent leading man. This is a dark film as its central preoccupation is spiritual crisis. This of course means that it is not for everyone but if you are attuned to the spiritual crisis of our time you might get a sense that the film captures it well.

In this movie Madonna proves she can really act. She delivers a sincere performance about an actress too embroiled in the characters she plays. Along with the legendary Harvey Keitel, the cast does an amazing job portraying the seedy underbelly of the film industry, using what appears to be old-school method acting.

Recommended by a friend. Any Harvey Keitel movie where he doesn't flash his penis, is good by me. Plus you got Madonna playing against her typecast, as a lowly worm of an abused chick.

Item arrived in perfection, A+++

This is a movie filled with shouting. I thought that awful Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton film WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOLLF was bad for that, but this takes the cake. Full of accusations, it is a sordid story about sordid people talking filthy and acting the same.Madonna is still the same as in 1993, my but she stagnated! And this filmmaker is the original "Phatom Father," not Rudy Winston, father of another moviemaker (in connection with David Lynch), Barry Gifford. He read to his children, he cared for his children the best he knew how, but basically he was not a good person and in a bad field. Can being a gangster and killer the same as being a bad film maker? I really didn't see much difference. We are all as good as we know how to be when raising a family, but making sordid, vulgar films is as bad as killing other bad people in real life.I saw very little redeeming value in this flick. So much in the dark, very little beauty of any kind -- just bad in every way.

This review is written by an Abel fan rather than a Madonna fan who I think is unbearable in this movie. She stars as Sarah Jennings an actress who has just landed the lead role in a film called Mother of Mirrors. The film deals with a married couple who have lived a lifestyle that includes heavy drug use and sex with multiple partners. The wife has had a spiritual awakening and no longer wants to partake in these sinful activities. She's hoping that her husband will stop as well and she makes it her mission to save him. The husband doesn't want to hear it and he beats her and taunts her about her new found faith. Directing this film is Eddie Israel (Harvey Keitel). The fact that Keitel is playing a character very similar to director Abel Ferrara is what makes this challenging film worth the effort. The film within a film Mother of Mirrors is similar to Abel's relationship with his ex-wife Nancy. (Nancy even plays Eddie's wife in the movie.) Keitel completely captures Abel complete with the long hair, leather coat, and shades that Ferrara frequently wears. More than a physical transformation Keitel shows how Abel works with his actors: tender when he needs to be and violent and confrontational when the scene isn't working. This film feels a lot like David Lynch's Inland Empire as what is taking place in the fake movie begins to happen to the actors in their everyday lives. Sarah and Burns (James Russo) the actor playing her husband are actually having an off screen relationship that is becoming more violent as the film shoot progresses. Burns is fueled by heavy drug use which holds up shooting and leads to confrontations between him and Eddie. To further complicate things Eddie has even begun sleeping with Sarah. At times trying to figure out what is in the movie and what is actually happening can be confusing but mostly it's just annoying. The acting from Madonna and James Russo doesn't help any since they are both so grating and whine constantly. Keitel is the saving grace of the film turning in a fine performance but he alone can't save things. The film just plunges deeper and deeper into violence and drug use. What makes this film interesting for Abel fans is in watching this fictionalized account of his life and wondering how much of it is true. There is a scene towards the end of the film where Eddie confesses to Nancy that he has been sleeping with Sarah and the two women missed each other by seconds once when Nancy brought the kids to the set to pay him a visit. Eddie digs the knife deeper by admitting that Sarah wasn't the first that there have been numerous others on each film he has worked on. Eddie's timing couldn't be better since the time he chooses to get things off his chest happens to be the morning of Nancy's father's funeral. There is another interesting moment where Eddie ridicules Sarah and tells her that without him she would be nothing. He is doing her a favor by casting her in this movie and he is solely responsible for her career taking off. Madonna's production company Maverick produced this film and no doubt contributed money to the film. Abel probably would have had trouble getting this film made were it not for Madonna's participation. It fails to be as good as Bad Lieutenant even though it takes the same raw approach. Near the end of the film when things are looking hopeless for everyone especially Eddie who is lost in a haze of pills and booze he watches a documentary with director Werner Herzog. Herzog says that even if everyone tells him that the film is a masterpiece he will never be able to justify it to himself and thinks that he should be put in an insane asylum. The ending is certainly a downer as each character meets their dark fate and once Bob Dylan starts singing Blue Moon over the end credits you are glad that this Abel exercise is finally over.

This film may skirt perilously close to hysteria at times, and some are likely to dismiss it as pretentious, but Dangerous Game is a brave and (in my view) very sincere film about human power dynamics and (more pertinently) dysfunctional masculinity, a film that is perhaps more relevant today than ever –– Helas pour moi!

Hay que verla, y en VO. Hay fragmentos de la interpretación de Madonna que no tienen desperdicio. Sobre el envío, tuve un problema de recepción del DVD debido a la Covid 19 pero finalmente, gracias a una gestión eficiente, amable y comprensiva por parte del vendedor, todo salió a la perfección.

Great movie!

Ich bin zufrieden mit dem Service und die Qualität von dem Disc.Vielen dank und es freut mich im Zukunft Geschäft zu tun.

Imprecindible. Una obra maestra. Inquietante.

Also ich hab mir diesen Film gekauft, weil ich zum einen Fan von Madonna bin, zum anderen ausgefalle und anspruchsvolle Filme mag. Außerdem habe ich einen Thriller erwartet. Das einzige, worin meine Erwartung erfüllt wurde, war Madonnas Schauspiel. Sie ist ja nicht gerade für ihr Talent auf diesem Gebiet bekannt, in diesem Film ist sie aber sehr gut! Das nutzt aber nichts, wenn der Film nicht überzeugt... Ich muss sagen ich war einfach froh, als er vorbei war! Weil ich den Film einfach langweilig fand, keine anständige Handlung da war, es überhaupt kein Thriller war und kaum eine Aussage zu erkennen war. Dass der Film billig gemacht wirkt, ist ein Stilmittel, wie bereits erwähnt wurde. Sieht man auch in den normalen Szenen. Aber insgesamt ist das alles wenig überzeugend. Daher von mir nur ein Stern!