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The intruder
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Set in a sinister apartment building which is home to the main protagonists, The intruder is an intriguing story of love, paranoia, murder and parallel time.
Nick Girard's (Charles Powell) ex-wife Stella (Marianne Therien) has been killed. His current wife Catherine (Charlotte Gainsbourg) has confessed to the crime but Stella was shot two years previously, before Catherine even knew Nick, with a gun not manufactured at the time of her death.
If Stella is dead how is it possible that new entries are appearing in her diary, in her own hand?
Could past and present be merging, or is there a logical explanation after all?
Also starring Nastassja Kinski as Badge Muller, Molly Parker as Daisy, John Hannah as Charlie, Charles Papasoff as the saxophonist, Marianne Therien as Nancy Brooke, Mike Tsar as Detective Fordham and Angelo Tsarouchas as Leiberman. Written by Jamie Brown and Paul Mayersberg from the novel by Brooke Leimas, directed by David Bailey.
Cinematic intelligence sources
Intelligence analyst
Special Agent Matti
Theatrical report
One day Brooke Leimas sat in her doctor's waiting room and got bored so she picked up a magazine to read. It was a science magazine and there was an article about the nature of space/time. In the article was the postulation that time is not linear, like a calendar, but fluid, like a swirling mist. (Trekkies are familiar with the phenomenon of non-linear temporality from the Prophets/wormhole aliens of Deep Space Nine, who can change the past without altering the present.)
When she got home she flicked the TV on and there was an episode of Melrose Place showing. The two concepts came together in Brooke's brain and she wrote the script for The intruder.
Some questions.
- Why does the French woman speak with a British accent?
- Why does the German woman speak with an American accent?
- Why does the European woman need to use the "bathroom" instead of the "toilet"?
- Why are the ugly people seen through a fish-eye lens so the they look even fatter than they are?
- Why does the heterosexual woman keep perving at the other heterosexual woman?
- Why are there so many pairs of women, including twins?
- Did Jamie Brown, Paul Mayersberg and David Bailey get to indulge their heterosexual fantasies about having sex with two women?
Security censorship classification
M (Medium level violence, supernatural theme, low level coarse language)
Surveillance time
94 minutes (1:34 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
VHS rental: 13 June 2001
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