The Intruder (1999)

The Intruder (1999) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( DTS 5.1 )
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Subtitles )
German ( DTS 5.1 )
German ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
94 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Collectors Edition
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Special Edition
Trailer(s)
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1999 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
David Bailey

Written By:
Jamie Brown
Brooke Leimas

Actors:
Charlotte Gainsbourg ..... Catherine Girard
Charles Edwin Powell ..... Nick Girard (as Charles Powell)
Nastassja Kinski ..... Badge Muller
Molly Parker ..... Daisy
John Hannah ..... Charlie
Charles Papasoff ..... Saxophonist
Marianne Farley ..... Stella / Nancy Brooke (as Marianne Therien)
Mike Tsar ..... Detective Fordham
Angelo Tsarouchas ..... Leiberman
Janis Kershner ..... Policewoman (as Janis Kirshner)
David McKeown ..... Mugger
John Dunn-Hill ..... Doctor
Tony Robinow ..... Maintenance Man
Candace Frazier ..... Twin
Cynthia Frazier ..... Twin

Synopsis:

Catherine (Charlotte Gainsbourg) moves to a new city, and Nick Girard (Charles Powell), a composer of film scores, catches her eye. They marry, but almost instantly something seems amiss. Nick had a previous wife named Stella, but she was killed two years earlier and her presence seems to still reside in the apartment. The neighbors in the building aren't exactly welcoming, either. Catherine begins to think that an unseen force is trying to warn her about Nick, who starts to doubt her sanity.

Charlotte Gainsbourg stars in this 1990s updating of George Cukor's Gaslight (1944). In an unnamed North American city, young Frenchwoman Catherine (Gainsbourg) stumbles into a police station and confesses to murdering her husband's ex-wife Stella. The cops remain unconvinced, as according to their records Stella was stabbed to death two years previously. The rest of the film is told in flashbacks. Soon after Catherine has left all she knew in Europe, she meets Nick (Charles Powell), a dashing film score composer. Not long afterwards, they marry, and she moves into his luxurious loft in an old apartment building. After learning about Nick's former wife's bloody demise, Catherine begins to notice weird things about the flat: a wine glass smudged with lipstick, crooked paintings, strands of another woman's hair, and a journal emblazoned with "SG." Her growing paranoia is only exaggerated by the odd assortment of people inhabiting the building, including a mysterious, ultra-fashionable German art broker, a wealthy math genius, and a wizened drunk who hobbles around with a cane. Soon Catherine finds herself fighting to maintain her sanity. The Intruder was screened at the 1999 Dinard Film Festival.

Catherine meets Nick by accident and, after a whirlwind romance, the two get married and Catherine moves into Nick's apartment only that's the start of problems when an unseen intruder begins playing strange mind games with Catherine in an apparent attempt to drive her insane. Catherine first suspects Nick is behind it, then suspicion moves to his business partner Badge, then to Nick's friends, until Catherine suspects that Nick's first wife Stella, who commited suicide years before, may be behind the occurrences which she may be committing from either beyond the grave, or by a time vortex within the apartment itself which may have let to her suicide in the first place.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 15 November, 2022.