Track 29 – Ein gefährliches Spiel (1988)

Track 29 – Ein gefährliches Spiel: Directed by Nicolas Roeg. With Theresa Russell, Gary Oldman, Christopher Lloyd, Colleen Camp. Linda is still tormented by giving up a baby for adoption at 15. She wants a baby, but her husband has enough in his model trains, mistress and being a doctor.

“A woman suffers mental trauma twenty years after being raped – at least thatu0026#39;s the most obtainable synopsis for this bizarre but entirely unengaging drama. Theresa Russell plays the bored housewife, trapped in a passionless marriage with doctor Christopher Lloyd. When a man claiming to be her son – stolen from her arms at birth after the rape – appears out of nowhere, knowing an awful lot about her, it releases the trauma she has kept hidden for so long.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhat should be intriguing is anything but. It is impossible to care for Russell because sheu0026#39;s embarrassingly bad. Lloyd has nothing to do (never mind nothing funny). The young Oldman is shown up in this most difficult of roles. Thatu0026#39;s probably thanks to the director more than himself. Roegu0026#39;s output is horribly inconsistent. You would have hoped that working from a script by the late, brilliant Dennis Potter would have inspired him to make a masterpiece. He canu0026#39;t even keep the film on the ground.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut then again, the Americans never got a grasp on Potteru0026#39;s humour. And Roeg has hardly been worth watching since he went to the States.”