Bound
Intense, erotic crime thriller with Gina Gershon as an ex-con who, after having a sexual liaison with neighbor Jennifer Tilly, joins forces with her to dupe gangster boyfriend Joe Pantoliano out of $2 million of laundered loot. they formulate a plan to rob millions of dollars of stashed mob cash, blaming gangster Caesar for it.
Desmond Dale reviewed
24 January 2025•
Bound by the same sort of fatalistic obsessive magnetism as the leads in film noir, the movie sets its sexy, dangerous tone right from the beginning. And very much like a bdsm, sadomasochistic love affair the film stretches the stakes and the tension sustains a climax that's not only deep but long and multi-tiered. There's a boldness to the film's symbolism that's exciting and fresh, from the slow methodical unscrewing of a gushing pipe to a horny glance between to the two lovers as they're roped and bound. And ultimately I enjoyed how the film toys with the dark foreshadowing of old film noir but strives for an ending that would have been quite controversial in the era when film noir reigned supreme.
Desmond Dale reviewed
24 January 2025•
Bound by the same sort of fatalistic obsessive magnetism as the leads in film noir, the movie sets its sexy, dangerous tone right from the beginning. And very much like a bdsm, sadomasochistic love affair the film stretches the stakes and the tension sustains a climax that's not only deep but long and multi-tiered. There's a boldness to the film's symbolism that's exciting and fresh, from the slow methodical unscrewing of a gushing pipe to a horny glance between to the two lovers as they're roped and bound. And ultimately I enjoyed how the film toys with the dark foreshadowing of old film noir but strives for an ending that would have been quite controversial in the era when film noir reigned supreme.
