![]() Basically, these were new fangled, sexually charged takes on the old film noir staples that probably began with Body Heat and flourished in films like Body Double, Sea of Love, Fatal Attraction and more precise modern adaptations like the great After Dark My Sweet (based on a novel by noir writer Jim Thompson) and the weak Against All Odds (loosely based on the classic noir, Out of the Past). Anyway, I figured the DVD would be easy enough to review and I'm always open to give a film another chance.īody of Evidence falls into, I guess, what one could call "neo-noir". ![]() Well, at least a young pre-critical darling Julianne Moore is DaFoe's wife and has a fairly decent bedroom romp. Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone- Penn- Ritchie got naked, a whole lot, but I would have preferred the film starred Nastassja Kinski. Don't get me wrong, I didn't mind that Ms. She just isn't my type I'm more of a Charlotte Rampling, Sherilyn Fenn, Maggie Cheung, or Anna Karina in My Life to Live kind of guy. Yes, unlike most of the masses, I was more curious about seeing the movie because of them rather than the titillation of seeing Madonna in the buff. I was duped both by the films bad reputation and the fact that it starred an actor I like, DaFoe, and a director, Uli Edel, who did the great Last Exit to Brooklyn. Her lawyer (Willem DaFoe) finds himself attracted to his potentially dangerous client, and soon, despite his doubts, he is drawn into her sexually adventurous world.Īdmittedly, back when it was a late night pay cable movie channel regular, I was roped into watching Body of Evidence. The vixen is accused of using the combination of kinky love and cocaine to strain the mans feeble heart in order to get his fortune. Gallery owner Rebecca Carlson's (Madonna) wealthy older lover is found dead and she is the prime suspect. Well, as it turns out, in just about every way possible. We've got an edgy art house foreign director. With Willem DaFoe, we've got our critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated, legitimate male lead. In Madonna, we've got a ready to bare it all mega-star with tons of publicity surrounding her kinky album Erotica and "Sex" book. ![]() You can see the producers (which included Dino "When monkey die, everybody cry." De Laurentis) thinking- "Okay, we've got a Basic Instinctlike sexual/thriller/mystery. In the wake of Basic Instinct's success, there was an almost biblical plague of imitators raining down on the direct to video shelves and late night cable screens, but the most high profile imitator had to be 1993's Body of Evidence. ![]()
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