DAMAGE

Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche surrender to the destructive pleasures of forbidden desire in Louis Malle’s devastatingly elegant erotic melodrama. A respected British politician with a seemingly perfect life becomes consumed by an obsessive affair with his son's enigmatic fiancée, setting in motion a chain of events from which no one will emerge unscathed.

Adapted from Josephine Hart’s novel, Damage is a feverish study of sexual obsession, bourgeois repression, and the catastrophic consequences of wanting something you cannot have. With a remarkable supporting cast including Miranda Richardson and Rupert Graves, Malle transforms the familiar tale of an illicit affair into something far more unsettling: a portrait of desire as addiction, where pleasure and self-destruction become indistinguishable. Cold, cruel, and almost unbearably erotic, Damage is one of the great adult dramas of the 1990s.