Movies
January, 1993
The movie version of Josephine Hart's short but sizzling novel Damage (New Line) oozes upscale passion. Producer-director Louis Malle works from a literate screenplay by David Hare, with Jeremy Irons once more on a roll as the seemingly detached British M.P. who ruins his political hopes in reckless trysts with the mysterious young woman his son intends to marry. Rupert Graves wins instant sympathy as the naive lad, Martin, with Juliette Binoche enticingly enigmatic as the amoral fiancée who see...