Fair Play is an erotical thriller film written and directed by Chloe Domont. The Netflix film revolves around the relationship of Emily and Luke, which begins to deteriorate after an unexpected promotion at work. Fair Play stars Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich in the lead roles and if you loved Domont’s directorial debut here are some similar movies you could watch next.
Damage (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Majestic Films International
Synopsis: Dr. Stephen Fleming (Jeremy Irons) is a British cabinet minister, who lives a pleasant life with his wife Ingrid (Miranda Richardson) and young daughter Sally (Gemma Clarke). At a party one evening he meets his son’s fiancé Anna (Juliet Binoche), who he is instantly attracted to. They embark on an affair behind their partners backs, gradually becoming more adventurous in their secret meetings. They are eventually discovered, and must deal with the damage. Based on the novel by Josephine Hart.
Damage (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Majestic Films International
Synopsis: Dr. Stephen Fleming (Jeremy Irons) is a British cabinet minister, who lives a pleasant life with his wife Ingrid (Miranda Richardson) and young daughter Sally (Gemma Clarke). At a party one evening he meets his son’s fiancé Anna (Juliet Binoche), who he is instantly attracted to. They embark on an affair behind their partners backs, gradually becoming more adventurous in their secret meetings. They are eventually discovered, and must deal with the damage. Based on the novel by Josephine Hart.
- 10/6/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Sexual obsession is well-worn territory for Erotic Thrillers, a subgenre that often features men who think with their libido rather than their brain. When you spend your life thinking about screwing, it tends to screw with your life.
This is the central premise of Josephine Hart’s 1991 novel Damage, which was transformed in the 1992 film of the same name, and, most recently, was adapted into the four part Netflix series Obsession.
In both adaptations, a wealthy, powerful, middle-aged married man becomes sexually obsessed with his son’s new girlfriend. They begin an affair, and the sexual desire costs the man everything: his job, his marriage, and the life of his son, who dies tragically when he falls over a banister after witnessing his father fucking his fiancé.
What’s interesting about both Damage and Obsession is how both texts adopt the tropes of an Erotic Thriller, albeit by substituting criminal or murderous activity for melodrama.
This is the central premise of Josephine Hart’s 1991 novel Damage, which was transformed in the 1992 film of the same name, and, most recently, was adapted into the four part Netflix series Obsession.
In both adaptations, a wealthy, powerful, middle-aged married man becomes sexually obsessed with his son’s new girlfriend. They begin an affair, and the sexual desire costs the man everything: his job, his marriage, and the life of his son, who dies tragically when he falls over a banister after witnessing his father fucking his fiancé.
What’s interesting about both Damage and Obsession is how both texts adopt the tropes of an Erotic Thriller, albeit by substituting criminal or murderous activity for melodrama.
- 5/30/2023
- by Joe Lipsett
- bloody-disgusting.com
Richard Armitage has revealed that he partly improvised a scene in which he humps a pillow in the new Netflix show Obsession.
The erotic thriller, which arrived on the platform today (13 April), is an adaptation of Josephine Hart’s 1991 novel, Damage. It follows William (Richard Armitage), an accomplished surgeon, who gets wrapped up in an intense affair with his son’s fiancé, Anna (Charlie Murphy).
In one scene, William discovers his lover’s hotel room, where he hunts for her scent, sniffing around the bed before making a beeline for a pillow.
Talking about filming that scene, Armitage told Metro: “It was really unexpected because it was written as quite a different scene.
“There was a tissue with her imprint of her lipstick on which we didn’t feel necessarily worked.
“I was really conscious that it shouldn’t be in any way comedic so we sort of left it...
The erotic thriller, which arrived on the platform today (13 April), is an adaptation of Josephine Hart’s 1991 novel, Damage. It follows William (Richard Armitage), an accomplished surgeon, who gets wrapped up in an intense affair with his son’s fiancé, Anna (Charlie Murphy).
In one scene, William discovers his lover’s hotel room, where he hunts for her scent, sniffing around the bed before making a beeline for a pillow.
Talking about filming that scene, Armitage told Metro: “It was really unexpected because it was written as quite a different scene.
“There was a tissue with her imprint of her lipstick on which we didn’t feel necessarily worked.
“I was really conscious that it shouldn’t be in any way comedic so we sort of left it...
- 4/15/2023
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - TV
In Obsession, Netflix’s new Bdsm thriller, the chaos begins when femme fatale Anna Barton starts giving sex eyes to her future father-in-law. “Is that for me?” she breathes, before he erotically pops an olive into her mouth. This, by the way, is the first time they’ve spoken. I was nervous when I met my boyfriend’s dad for the first time, but at least I didn’t do anything that weird.
This is the problem with this adaptation of Josephine Hart’s 1991 novel, later made into a film in 1992 starring Jeremy Irons: it wants to gird our loins, but often it just makes us giggle. Obsession has been hailed as the successor to Fifty Shades of Grey, but instead it gives us an overload of shlock, foreboding string music and some depressing, grunty shagging.
Richard Armitage plays William, the horny dad in question who is also an important and brilliant surgeon.
This is the problem with this adaptation of Josephine Hart’s 1991 novel, later made into a film in 1992 starring Jeremy Irons: it wants to gird our loins, but often it just makes us giggle. Obsession has been hailed as the successor to Fifty Shades of Grey, but instead it gives us an overload of shlock, foreboding string music and some depressing, grunty shagging.
Richard Armitage plays William, the horny dad in question who is also an important and brilliant surgeon.
- 4/14/2023
- by Jessie Thompson
- The Independent - TV
Warning: contains major spoilers for the Obsession finale.
Netflix’s Obsession changes the ending of the Josephine Hart novel Damage, from which it was adapted, by choosing to shift the story’s focus away from the male lead and onto the character of Anna Barton.
The TV series ends with Anna (Charlie Murphy) starting therapy, having decided to stop her destructive cycles and work through her traumatic past with a counsellor. In the final scenes of the series, she phoned her friend Peggy to say “I need you”. Peggy helped Anna away from her London flat in which she’d conducted the affair with Will and where her fiance Jay – Will’s son – had died, and away from Anna’s dysfunctional relationship with her mother. After Jay’s death, Anna’s mother revealed that she knew Anna was being incestuously abused by her brother Aston as a child, but did...
Netflix’s Obsession changes the ending of the Josephine Hart novel Damage, from which it was adapted, by choosing to shift the story’s focus away from the male lead and onto the character of Anna Barton.
The TV series ends with Anna (Charlie Murphy) starting therapy, having decided to stop her destructive cycles and work through her traumatic past with a counsellor. In the final scenes of the series, she phoned her friend Peggy to say “I need you”. Peggy helped Anna away from her London flat in which she’d conducted the affair with Will and where her fiance Jay – Will’s son – had died, and away from Anna’s dysfunctional relationship with her mother. After Jay’s death, Anna’s mother revealed that she knew Anna was being incestuously abused by her brother Aston as a child, but did...
- 4/13/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Remember when everyone was obsessed with the book “Fifty Shades of Grey.” The frenzy was such that people could not wait to see the on-screen adaptation of the same. The movie was average, but it created a fan following for a certain type of cinema, and ever since, a lot of cinema and television shows based on the same subject have come out that explicitly talk about a relationship that crosses the line. “Obsession” is a Netflix Original Miniseries directed by Lisa Barros D’sa and Glenn Leyburn and released on the platform on April 13, 2023. The show is all about an affair that happened between two people that might change their lives for the better.
The show begins with Dr. William Farrow, a well-known London-based pediatric surgeon who is known for successfully separating conjoined twins. After a long day at the hospital, all Will wants to do is spend some time with his wife and kids.
The show begins with Dr. William Farrow, a well-known London-based pediatric surgeon who is known for successfully separating conjoined twins. After a long day at the hospital, all Will wants to do is spend some time with his wife and kids.
- 4/13/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
William is a highly successful pediatric surgeon, a little uptight but living a good life with his family in London. But from the moment he locks eyes with Anna, standing across the room at a lavish party, he’s doomed. He knows it. We know it. The fun of Obsession, a new four-part erotic thriller from Netflix, lies in watching it all fall down. That, and a whole lot of kinky, animalistic sex.
This is a tale of amour fou, in which lust tramples everything in its path – family, respectability,...
This is a tale of amour fou, in which lust tramples everything in its path – family, respectability,...
- 4/13/2023
- by Chris Vognar
- Rollingstone.com
To celebrate Netflix’s seductive new limited series, ‘Obsession,’ an exclusive erotic boutique pop-up will be opening in the heart of Soho.
The series is a contemporary adaptation of Josephine Hart’s 1991 novella, Damage, and centres around a dangerous love triangle that emerges when the enigmatic Anna Barton (Charlie Murphy) embarks on a passionate affair with her fiancé’s father, William (Richard Armitage), a top surgeon.
In the story, Anna reveals her red leather-bound diary to William – a place where she keeps her deepest secrets and divulges sexual desires she and William explore in their affair through Bdsm. The erotic boutique will be an immersive experience bringing visitors into Anna’s world of play, whilst inviting them to give up their own secret anonymously in ‘Anna’s diary’; in exchange, they will be rewarded with a luxury product available within the boutique.
Actors dressed as Anna will enhance the experience,...
The series is a contemporary adaptation of Josephine Hart’s 1991 novella, Damage, and centres around a dangerous love triangle that emerges when the enigmatic Anna Barton (Charlie Murphy) embarks on a passionate affair with her fiancé’s father, William (Richard Armitage), a top surgeon.
In the story, Anna reveals her red leather-bound diary to William – a place where she keeps her deepest secrets and divulges sexual desires she and William explore in their affair through Bdsm. The erotic boutique will be an immersive experience bringing visitors into Anna’s world of play, whilst inviting them to give up their own secret anonymously in ‘Anna’s diary’; in exchange, they will be rewarded with a luxury product available within the boutique.
Actors dressed as Anna will enhance the experience,...
- 4/13/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Obsession is a series starring Indira Varma and Charlie Murphy. It is based on the novel by Josephine Hart.
A dark-looking, good thriller story that, pretending to look daring, doesn’t take too many risks after all. However, it knows how to play the dark thriller at times (not always) and, in its irregularity, serves as a good piece of entertainment for fans of the genre.
About the Series
There are times when, on a blind date or in a movie, you have to know what you want and where you’re going. In other words, be clear about things. Obsession is a British series that, almost like a TV movie, pretends to go to the dark side of life, deep down, like in a Lou Reed-style but unwillingly to look at the David Lynch-side of things.
Woven with a deep moralistic tone, it is a film that...
A dark-looking, good thriller story that, pretending to look daring, doesn’t take too many risks after all. However, it knows how to play the dark thriller at times (not always) and, in its irregularity, serves as a good piece of entertainment for fans of the genre.
About the Series
There are times when, on a blind date or in a movie, you have to know what you want and where you’re going. In other words, be clear about things. Obsession is a British series that, almost like a TV movie, pretends to go to the dark side of life, deep down, like in a Lou Reed-style but unwillingly to look at the David Lynch-side of things.
Woven with a deep moralistic tone, it is a film that...
- 4/13/2023
- by Veronica Loop
- Martin Cid - TV
Richard Armitage has revealed that he partly improvised a scene in which he humps a pillow in the new Netflix show Obsession.
The erotic thriller, which arrived on the platform today (13 April), is an adaptation of Josephine Hart’s 1991 novel, Damage. It follows William (Richard Armitage), an accomplished surgeon, who gets wrapped up in an intense affair with his son’s fiancé, Anna (Charlie Murphy).
In one scene, William discovers his lover’s hotel room, where he hunts for her scent, sniffing around the bed before making a beeline for a pillow.
Talking about filming that scene, Armitage told Metro: “It was really unexpected because it was written as quite a different scene.
“There was a tissue with her imprint of her lipstick on which we didn’t feel necessarily worked.
“I was really conscious that it shouldn’t be in any way comedic so we sort of left it...
The erotic thriller, which arrived on the platform today (13 April), is an adaptation of Josephine Hart’s 1991 novel, Damage. It follows William (Richard Armitage), an accomplished surgeon, who gets wrapped up in an intense affair with his son’s fiancé, Anna (Charlie Murphy).
In one scene, William discovers his lover’s hotel room, where he hunts for her scent, sniffing around the bed before making a beeline for a pillow.
Talking about filming that scene, Armitage told Metro: “It was really unexpected because it was written as quite a different scene.
“There was a tissue with her imprint of her lipstick on which we didn’t feel necessarily worked.
“I was really conscious that it shouldn’t be in any way comedic so we sort of left it...
- 4/13/2023
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - TV
In Obsession, Netflix’s new Bdsm thriller, the chaos begins when femme fatale Anna Barton starts giving sex eyes to her future father-in-law. “Is that for me?” she breathes, before he erotically pops an olive into her mouth. This, by the way, is the first time they’ve spoken. I was nervous when I met my boyfriend’s dad for the first time, but at least I didn’t do anything that weird.
This is the problem with this adaptation of Josephine Hart’s 1991 novel, later made into a film in 1992 starring Jeremy Irons: it wants to gird our loins, but often it just makes us giggle. Obsession has been hailed as the successor to Fifty Shades of Grey, but instead it gives us an overload of shlock, foreboding string music and some depressing, grunty shagging.
Richard Armitage plays William, the horny dad in question who is also an important and brilliant surgeon.
This is the problem with this adaptation of Josephine Hart’s 1991 novel, later made into a film in 1992 starring Jeremy Irons: it wants to gird our loins, but often it just makes us giggle. Obsession has been hailed as the successor to Fifty Shades of Grey, but instead it gives us an overload of shlock, foreboding string music and some depressing, grunty shagging.
Richard Armitage plays William, the horny dad in question who is also an important and brilliant surgeon.
- 4/13/2023
- by Jessie Thompson
- The Independent - TV
Titillating trash. Satisfying drama. As deep as it thinks it is – all things that Netflix’s Obsession isn’t. This four-part series adapted from Josephine Hart’s 1991 novel Damage (memorably filmed as Louis Malle’s 1992 feature film of the same name) aims to be an arty, meaningful portrait of erotic obsession but turns out to be more of a boner-killer.
It’s not the fault of the cast, who commit mightily to the task. Richard Armitage and Charlie Murphy dial up their intensity to dangerous levels as William and Anna, two people whose affair blasts apart their lives.
Anna is dating William’s besotted son, but shares a sexual frisson with his father that proves irresistible. After a chance meeting at a work do in which Will breathily pushes an olive between Anna’s lips and gets such a lob-on that he has to spend the rest of the episode...
It’s not the fault of the cast, who commit mightily to the task. Richard Armitage and Charlie Murphy dial up their intensity to dangerous levels as William and Anna, two people whose affair blasts apart their lives.
Anna is dating William’s besotted son, but shares a sexual frisson with his father that proves irresistible. After a chance meeting at a work do in which Will breathily pushes an olive between Anna’s lips and gets such a lob-on that he has to spend the rest of the episode...
- 4/13/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
This four-part Netflix series isn’t the first time that Josephine Hart’s 1991 novel Damage has been adapted for screen. In 1992, celebrated French director Louis Malle made a feature film of Hart’s book that welcomed Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson, Peter Stomare and Rupert Graves to this exploration of erotic obsession. The film earned Richardson a Best Actress nomination among many others at that year’s Academy Awards.
This serialised version was created by playwright Morgan Lloyd Malcolm with writer Benji Walters, and directed by Ordinary Love, Good Vibrations and Cherry Bomb‘s Lisa Barrow D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn, updates the action to the modern day and remoulds the characters somewhat. Richard Armitage plays successful surgeon Will, husband to Ingrid and father to Jay and Sally, while Charlie Muphy’s character Anna Barton is expanded to explore her response to the fallout of the story’s scandalous central affair.
This serialised version was created by playwright Morgan Lloyd Malcolm with writer Benji Walters, and directed by Ordinary Love, Good Vibrations and Cherry Bomb‘s Lisa Barrow D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn, updates the action to the modern day and remoulds the characters somewhat. Richard Armitage plays successful surgeon Will, husband to Ingrid and father to Jay and Sally, while Charlie Muphy’s character Anna Barton is expanded to explore her response to the fallout of the story’s scandalous central affair.
- 4/13/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Charlie Murphy doesn’t usually watch herself on screen. She didn’t watch Happy Valley, in which she played victim-turned-copper Ann Gallagher. Nor did she see Peaky Blinders, in which she played real-life trade union activist Jessie Eden for two seasons. But Netflix’s new erotic thriller Obsession was different: “I’m really happy I watched it,” the Irish actor tells me over Zoom. “The main reason was to see...” She pauses for a split second to think of the word she means, before concluding: “To see the process play out.” I’m sorry, I tell her, I really thought you were going to say “the sex scenes” then. She throws her head back and howls. “I watched it to see... the tits. Were they Ok? Yes, Ok, they’re fine.”
It’s true: breasts are on show in Obsession, the new Netflix four-parter that’s being touted as the horniest series on the platform.
It’s true: breasts are on show in Obsession, the new Netflix four-parter that’s being touted as the horniest series on the platform.
- 4/12/2023
- by Kate Solomon
- The Independent - TV
Got a You shaped hole in your viewing schedule? Prepare to fill it with Obsession, Netflix’s new erotic thriller series.
Following the success of the Penn Badgley thriller, as well as water-cooler moment shows like Sex/Life, Netflix’s latest series promises intrigue, drama and a whole lot of sex.
Written by playwright Morgan Lloyd-Malcolm, Obsession focuses on a forbidden affair between top surgeon William (Spooks’ Richard Armitage) and his adult son’s fiancée Anna (Happy Valley’s Charlie Murphy).
As their attraction grows, so does the show’s erotic tension, as William becomes obsessed with Anna and desperate to keep their passionate affair secret.
The limited series sees Game of Thrones’ Indira Varma star as Ingrid, William’s wife, while Ms Marvel’s Rish Shah plays William’s son, Anna’s fiancé Jay. Pippa Bennett-Warner, Sonera Angel, Anil Goutam and Marion Bailey round out the cast.
Obsession is based...
Following the success of the Penn Badgley thriller, as well as water-cooler moment shows like Sex/Life, Netflix’s latest series promises intrigue, drama and a whole lot of sex.
Written by playwright Morgan Lloyd-Malcolm, Obsession focuses on a forbidden affair between top surgeon William (Spooks’ Richard Armitage) and his adult son’s fiancée Anna (Happy Valley’s Charlie Murphy).
As their attraction grows, so does the show’s erotic tension, as William becomes obsessed with Anna and desperate to keep their passionate affair secret.
The limited series sees Game of Thrones’ Indira Varma star as Ingrid, William’s wife, while Ms Marvel’s Rish Shah plays William’s son, Anna’s fiancé Jay. Pippa Bennett-Warner, Sonera Angel, Anil Goutam and Marion Bailey round out the cast.
Obsession is based...
- 4/6/2023
- by Isobel Lewis
- The Independent - TV
This April, the temperature isn’t the only thing rising; TV shows are heating up too! It’s time for another exciting wave of premieres to kick off. The titles spread across all platforms, from traditional network and cable outlets to streaming services that bring even more original content than ever before.
Check our lists from previous months: December | January | February | March
10 New TV Shows to Watch in April 2023 (Ranked by Popularity)
No matter how you prefer your entertainment served up – with plenty of adaptations or new programming – there is something this month sure to please all tastes. We’ve got romantic multiverses tugging at our heartstrings. At the same time, negotiations occur amongst high-ranking government officials in boardrooms everywhere, psychological thrillers exploring dark socio-political topics on a global scale, and one woman’s ability to impart sage advice drawing lines between comedy and drama.
And don’t forget two...
Check our lists from previous months: December | January | February | March
10 New TV Shows to Watch in April 2023 (Ranked by Popularity)
No matter how you prefer your entertainment served up – with plenty of adaptations or new programming – there is something this month sure to please all tastes. We’ve got romantic multiverses tugging at our heartstrings. At the same time, negotiations occur amongst high-ranking government officials in boardrooms everywhere, psychological thrillers exploring dark socio-political topics on a global scale, and one woman’s ability to impart sage advice drawing lines between comedy and drama.
And don’t forget two...
- 4/2/2023
- by Buddy TV
- buddytv.com
Netflix has debuted the trailer for the seductive four-part limited series about erotic obsession and forbidden desire, ‘Obsession.’
A contemporary adaptation of Josephine Hart’s novella, Damage, the story centres around a dangerous love triangle that emerges when the enigmatic Anna Barton embarks on a passionate affair with her fiance’s father, William. Whilst Anna fights to sustain both relationships, William is drawn into an obsessive spiral. But how long can they keep their secret hidden before someone gets hurt?
Created and written by Morgan Lloyd-Malcolm, the cast includes Richard Armitage as William; Charlie Murphy as Anna; Indira Varma as William’s wife Ingrid; and Rish Shah as Anna’s fiance Jay. Also starring Pippa Bennett-Warner, Sonera Angel (Red Velvet Revolution), Anil Goutam (Andor), and Marion Bailey (The Crown).
Also in trailers – “Wouldn’t you agree, that was quite reckless?” Trailer drops for ‘One Ranger’
The series is coming to...
A contemporary adaptation of Josephine Hart’s novella, Damage, the story centres around a dangerous love triangle that emerges when the enigmatic Anna Barton embarks on a passionate affair with her fiance’s father, William. Whilst Anna fights to sustain both relationships, William is drawn into an obsessive spiral. But how long can they keep their secret hidden before someone gets hurt?
Created and written by Morgan Lloyd-Malcolm, the cast includes Richard Armitage as William; Charlie Murphy as Anna; Indira Varma as William’s wife Ingrid; and Rish Shah as Anna’s fiance Jay. Also starring Pippa Bennett-Warner, Sonera Angel (Red Velvet Revolution), Anil Goutam (Andor), and Marion Bailey (The Crown).
Also in trailers – “Wouldn’t you agree, that was quite reckless?” Trailer drops for ‘One Ranger’
The series is coming to...
- 3/29/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"I feel this overwhelming need to be with her... all the time." Netflix has revealed an official trailer for their erotic thriller series Obsession, arriving for streaming in April in a few weeks. A contemporary adaptation of Josephine Hart's novella titled Damage, this story takes place in London. An intense affair between a talented surgeon and his son's fiancée spirals into a dangerous, all-consuming obsession, with devastating consequences for the whole family. A tense, erotic thriller starring Richard Armitage, Charlie Murphy, Indira Varma, and Rish Shah. Oooh this definitely sounds spicy. Everyone was asking for more erotic thrillers, so Netflix has been churning them out aplenty, following up 50 Shades of Gray and the Polish series 365 Days with more like this. The cast also includes Sonera Angel, Anil Goutam, Pippa Bennett-Warner, and Marion Bailey. It certainly looks intensely erotic and dangerous, that's for sure. // Continue Reading ›...
- 3/29/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Dominic West Tells Us There Are “Tumultuous” Times Ahead For ‘The Crown’ During London Poetry Soiree
Exclusive: Dominic West, who portrays British monarch in-waiting Prince Charles in the upcoming fifth season of The Crown, has told us that season six, which shoots from August, “will be as tumultuous as it gets”, because it will explore the tragic death of Princess Diana.
Season five is already in the can and will stream on Netflix later this year.
West, star of TV hits The Wire and The Affair, and recent movie Downton Abbey: A New Era, spoke to Deadline on Sunday night during a poetry reading at London’s Delaunay restaurant.
The soiree, which included the recital of three T.S. Eliot poems, was held for The Josephine Hart Poetry Hour, an event established thirty years ago by Hart, the novelist, poet and a leading light of London’s literary and theater set until her death in 2011. Hart’s 1991 novel Damage was adapted for the screen by David Hare...
Season five is already in the can and will stream on Netflix later this year.
West, star of TV hits The Wire and The Affair, and recent movie Downton Abbey: A New Era, spoke to Deadline on Sunday night during a poetry reading at London’s Delaunay restaurant.
The soiree, which included the recital of three T.S. Eliot poems, was held for The Josephine Hart Poetry Hour, an event established thirty years ago by Hart, the novelist, poet and a leading light of London’s literary and theater set until her death in 2011. Hart’s 1991 novel Damage was adapted for the screen by David Hare...
- 6/27/2022
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
I'm not often squicked out by a series description, but I find the one for the upcoming Netflix series "Damage" really unsettling. With all the horror films and sci-fi that I watch, it might be surprising that this one is sort of vile for me, but it is. "Damage" is based on the Josephine Hart 1990s political novella about "erotic obsession and forbidden desire," and Richard Armitage and Charlie Murphy have now joined the cast, according to Variety.
Armitage ("The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies") is set to play William, a doctor who is having an affair with -- and here...
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Armitage ("The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies") is set to play William, a doctor who is having an affair with -- and here...
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- 3/20/2022
- by Jenna Busch
- Slash Film
Richard Armitage, Charlie Murphy to star in Gaumount, Moonage Pictures series.
Netflix UK executives Anne Mensah, Fiona Lamptey and Kate Townsend discussed the studio’s upcoming slate in London on Thursday (March 17), as the company launched new erotic thriller series Damage.
The three-part series is led by The Hobbit star Richard Armitage and Peaky Blinders’ Charlie Murphy. It is produced by France’s Gaumont and the UK’s Moonage Pictures.
Adapted from a novella by Josephine Hart, Damage centres on a love triangle between an enigmatic woman (Murphy) who embarks on a passionate affair with her fiancé’s father (Armitage...
Netflix UK executives Anne Mensah, Fiona Lamptey and Kate Townsend discussed the studio’s upcoming slate in London on Thursday (March 17), as the company launched new erotic thriller series Damage.
The three-part series is led by The Hobbit star Richard Armitage and Peaky Blinders’ Charlie Murphy. It is produced by France’s Gaumont and the UK’s Moonage Pictures.
Adapted from a novella by Josephine Hart, Damage centres on a love triangle between an enigmatic woman (Murphy) who embarks on a passionate affair with her fiancé’s father (Armitage...
- 3/17/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Richard Armitage is set to star in “Damage,” a new Netflix series from Gaumont U.K. and Moonage.
Armitage (“The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies”) will play William, a politician who embarks on a passionate affair with his soon-to-be daughter in law, Anna (played by “Peaky Blinders” star Charlie Murphy.)
Anna is already engaged to William’s son Martyn, played by “Miss Marvel’s” Rish Shah. She fights to keep both relationships alive – one with Martyn and one with William – but it is inevitable that the truth will emerge and someone is going to get hurt.
In the meantime, William finds himself drawn into an obsessive spiral, unbeknown to his wife Ingrid (played by “Obi Wan Kenobi’s” Indira Varma.)
Pippa Bennett-Warner (“Gangs of London”) is also set to join the cast as Peggy.
“Damage” is based on Josephine Hart’s 1990s political novella about “erotic obsession and forbidden desire.
Armitage (“The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies”) will play William, a politician who embarks on a passionate affair with his soon-to-be daughter in law, Anna (played by “Peaky Blinders” star Charlie Murphy.)
Anna is already engaged to William’s son Martyn, played by “Miss Marvel’s” Rish Shah. She fights to keep both relationships alive – one with Martyn and one with William – but it is inevitable that the truth will emerge and someone is going to get hurt.
In the meantime, William finds himself drawn into an obsessive spiral, unbeknown to his wife Ingrid (played by “Obi Wan Kenobi’s” Indira Varma.)
Pippa Bennett-Warner (“Gangs of London”) is also set to join the cast as Peggy.
“Damage” is based on Josephine Hart’s 1990s political novella about “erotic obsession and forbidden desire.
- 3/17/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
The Hobbit star Richard Armitage and Peaky Blinders’ Charlie Murphy are leading a three-part Netflix UK erotic thriller about obsession and desire from Gaumont and Moonage Pictures.
Unveiled at a London event this evening by Netflix VP Scripted Content Anne Mensah, Damage also stars Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Indira Varma, Strangers’ Rish Shah and Chloe’s Pippa Bennett-Warner.
Adapted from Josephine Hart’s novella, the three-parter centers on a dangerous love triangle that emerges when the enigmatic Anna Barton (Murphy) embarks on a passionate affair with her fiancé’s father William (Armitage). Whilst Anna fights to sustain both relationships, William is drawn into an obsessive spiral.
2022 Netflix Pilot & Series Orders
Morgan Lloyd-Malcolm and Benji Walters are writing, with Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros D’Sa directing. The series is produced by Gina Carter. Moonage’s Matthew Read and Frith Triplady, and Gaumont’s Alison Jackson are executive producers.
The commission is Moonage...
Unveiled at a London event this evening by Netflix VP Scripted Content Anne Mensah, Damage also stars Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Indira Varma, Strangers’ Rish Shah and Chloe’s Pippa Bennett-Warner.
Adapted from Josephine Hart’s novella, the three-parter centers on a dangerous love triangle that emerges when the enigmatic Anna Barton (Murphy) embarks on a passionate affair with her fiancé’s father William (Armitage). Whilst Anna fights to sustain both relationships, William is drawn into an obsessive spiral.
2022 Netflix Pilot & Series Orders
Morgan Lloyd-Malcolm and Benji Walters are writing, with Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros D’Sa directing. The series is produced by Gina Carter. Moonage’s Matthew Read and Frith Triplady, and Gaumont’s Alison Jackson are executive producers.
The commission is Moonage...
- 3/17/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
As year-end rituals go, remembering those we've lost over the past twelve months is the solemn twin of list-making, though it's often no less an act of celebration. In the new issue of the Brooklyn Rail, Charles Bernstein and Susan Bee look back on the life of George Kuchar, "one of the most creative, original, and influential filmmakers of our time, straddling two generations of North American iconoclasts, from Stan Brakhage, Ken Jacobs, Rudy Burckhardt, Kenneth Anger, and Michael Snow to Warren Sonbert, Ernie Gehr, Abigail Child, and Henry Hills. Often collaborating with his twin brother, Mike, George Kuchar started making films as a Bronx teenager, and the brothers' early films already show the ingenuity, exuberance, and do-it-yourself charm that would pervade scores of their subsequent films."
More from Clara Pais in the freely downloadable December issue of One + One, which also features Diamuid Hester on Jacques Tati, Donna K on Brent Green,...
More from Clara Pais in the freely downloadable December issue of One + One, which also features Diamuid Hester on Jacques Tati, Donna K on Brent Green,...
- 12/11/2011
- MUBI
The two most important things that can happen to you in a mainstream movie are being killed and having an orgasm. Sometimes in facial close-ups it's hard to tell one from the other. When Pauline Kael saw that wall poster in Italy saying "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," she sensed she was onto something.
I've recently seen two movies centering on orgasms. The most intense is Steve McQueen's "Shame," starring Michael Fassbender as a sex addict. I think I'll save my observations about that one for my review. Hardly less intense was Louis Malle's "Damage" (1992), about an affair between a man and his son's bride-to-be. It made an impression on me at the time, and I was scouting it for a possible Great Movie review. It reminded me how important orgasms can be in the cinema.
Most movie orgasms are perfunctory. Often we start with an action movie, introduce a woman,...
I've recently seen two movies centering on orgasms. The most intense is Steve McQueen's "Shame," starring Michael Fassbender as a sex addict. I think I'll save my observations about that one for my review. Hardly less intense was Louis Malle's "Damage" (1992), about an affair between a man and his son's bride-to-be. It made an impression on me at the time, and I was scouting it for a possible Great Movie review. It reminded me how important orgasms can be in the cinema.
Most movie orgasms are perfunctory. Often we start with an action movie, introduce a woman,...
- 11/23/2011
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
The book Damage celebrated its 20th anniversary in March and now actor Jeremy Irons, who starred in the 1992 film adaptation of the popular novel is talking about his experiences.
Damage is story of a man’s desperate obsession and scandalous love affair. He is a man who appears to have everything: wealth, a beautiful wife and children, and a prestigious political career in Parliament. But his life lacks passion, and his aching emptiness drives him to an all-consuming, and ultimately catastrophic, relationship with his son’s fiancée.
Irons and author Josephine Hart talk about the special anniversary and what it was like seeing the film play out on the big screen.
Check it out!
Jeremy Irons Talks Damages For Its 20th Anniversary...
Damage is story of a man’s desperate obsession and scandalous love affair. He is a man who appears to have everything: wealth, a beautiful wife and children, and a prestigious political career in Parliament. But his life lacks passion, and his aching emptiness drives him to an all-consuming, and ultimately catastrophic, relationship with his son’s fiancée.
Irons and author Josephine Hart talk about the special anniversary and what it was like seeing the film play out on the big screen.
Check it out!
Jeremy Irons Talks Damages For Its 20th Anniversary...
- 4/7/2011
- by alyssa@mediavine.com (Alyssa Caverley)
- Reel Movie News
Director Per Fly's The Woman Who Dreamt Of A Man is about sex. Got your attention? Passion realised as sexual obsession, to be exact, but like all films trying to be serious about the reasons people lust for each other it's got any number of potential pitfalls to overcome. Imagine a chart from laughable (most of Zalman King's work) up to phenomenal (Shinya Tsukamoto's masterpiece A Snake of June). The Woman... ultimately lodges in the upper half of that scale, though it stops just about everywhere on the way.
The title is almost the entire premise - Karen (Sonja Richter), a successful fashion photographer, meets Maciek (Marcin Dorocinski), a lecturer the spitting image of the man she's had darkly erotic dreams about for some time. She follows him, and when he challenges her, she explains the reason she's so fascinated by him. Drawn together by her story,...
The title is almost the entire premise - Karen (Sonja Richter), a successful fashion photographer, meets Maciek (Marcin Dorocinski), a lecturer the spitting image of the man she's had darkly erotic dreams about for some time. She follows him, and when he challenges her, she explains the reason she's so fascinated by him. Drawn together by her story,...
- 11/24/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Craig here with the next Take Three.
This week: Miranda Richardson
Take One: Collateral marriage damage
If you want nearly two hours of Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche miserably humping each other in dull, anonymous locations (all frightfully well lit of course) then Damage is good to go. Louis Malle's, and scriptwriter David Hare's, adaptation of Josephine Hart's novel, about a member of Parliament's affair with his son's girlfriend, is rather too inert and tasteful for its own good, and was only partially praised but largely ignored perhaps for those reasons. Many liked it, but many more had issues with it (or so I've read). I had a hard time remembering much about the film, save for the sullen, cheerless sex scenes mentioned above... and one other aspect: Miranda Richardson, playing Irons' character's dutiful wife. Gosh, I love me some Binoche, but good grief Richardson owned this one.
This week: Miranda Richardson
Take One: Collateral marriage damage
If you want nearly two hours of Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche miserably humping each other in dull, anonymous locations (all frightfully well lit of course) then Damage is good to go. Louis Malle's, and scriptwriter David Hare's, adaptation of Josephine Hart's novel, about a member of Parliament's affair with his son's girlfriend, is rather too inert and tasteful for its own good, and was only partially praised but largely ignored perhaps for those reasons. Many liked it, but many more had issues with it (or so I've read). I had a hard time remembering much about the film, save for the sullen, cheerless sex scenes mentioned above... and one other aspect: Miranda Richardson, playing Irons' character's dutiful wife. Gosh, I love me some Binoche, but good grief Richardson owned this one.
- 6/20/2010
- by Craig Bloomfield
- FilmExperience
The Truth About Love by Josephine Hart. A family collapses emotionally after the death of their teenage son in Josephine Hart’s new novel, The Truth About Love (Knopf, August 13). Three sharp voices—that of his mother, Sissy; his older sister, Olivia; and his neighbor, Mr. Middlehoff—are woven together to tell the story of their struggle to understand the tragedy and move on. In this exclusive audio excerpt, Hart reads from the dramatic scene in which Sissy hears about her son’s death, and describes her scramble to overcome her grief in a mental hospital several months later. Listen to the podcast after the jump.
- 8/7/2009
- Vanity Fair
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