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Damage

...a cataclysmic peek into the erotic abyss.

...Binoche is mesmerising here as the beautiful, but almost psychotically remote siren in a role that could easily have descended into a vampy fatale parody...

...one of those rare movies that is about sexuality, not sex; about the tension between people, not relationships; about how physical love is meaningless without a psychic engine behind it.

DAMAGE's plot is pure soap opera melodrama, but Malle imbues the material with an almost morbid seriousness that matches David Hare's irony-free screenplay.