Basic Instinct
The Nickel Cinema117-119 Clerkenwell Road, London
Thu 8 Oct · 18:30
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A volatile San Francisco homicide detective is drawn into a murder investigation in which the prime suspect, bestselling novelist Catherine Tramell, appears to have written the crime before it happened. Cool, wealthy and completely unruffled, Catherine turns interrogation into seduction, pulling Nick Curran into a tightening web of sex, obsession and violence. Paul Verhoeven’s gleaming, ice-cold erotic thriller is Hollywood excess at its most shameless and controlled - a lurid game of authorship and appetite, driven by Sharon Stone’s star-making performance, Jan de Bont’s cobalt cinematography and Jerry Goldsmith’s serpentine score. Few studio films have made danger look this luxurious.
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