Besieged 1998, Rated R New Line Home Video

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Beautifully crafted and shot, Besieged is the latest in this line of director Bernardo Bertolucci's superbly artistic motion pictures. Thandie Newton (Beloved) stars as Shandurai, an African woman who moves to Italy after her husband is taken captive by African military police. In Rome, Shandurai begins to study medicine and, to pay the bills, cleans the apartment of a quiet, sensitive, recluse pianist, Mr. Kinsky (David Thewlis). Soon, it becomes clear through a series of long, piercing glances across the room that Shandurai and Mr. Kinsky have fallen in love with one another. When Shanduari gets some news of her husband, it throws a large wrench like object in Kinsky's plans for the two. The unusual nature of Besieged was one of its greatest selling points. Filled with breathtaking cinematography, compliments of Fabio Cienchetti, Besieged is Bertolucci's slower paced answer to the more popular romantic films of the '90's.