Phantom

Name: Phantom
Genre: Drama
Released: November 22, 2002
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 36
Cast: Beatriz Torcato, Ricardo Meneses

2002

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Picture This! Entertainment | Release Date: November 22, 2002 | Unrated

Starring: Beatriz Torcato, Ricardo Meneses

Summary: An explicit drama about a loner who embarks on a dangerous erotic game.

Director: João Pedro Rodrigues

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 90 min

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Kevin Thomas

As audacious as it is compelling and as dark as it is erotic. Its sexuality is explicit, alternately teasing and brutal, and one that is ultimately a cautionary tale. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Reminded me most of Jean Genet's "Un chant d'amour," with bondage and latex replacing incarceration and cigarettes. This is not to say that it's equally good or poetic, but the eroticizing of a whole universe is no less apparent. Read full review

Dennis Lim

Easily the artiest queer stroke movie of the year. Read full review

Megan Lehmann

An interesting addition to a genre that tends too often to disregard artistic technique. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

While the transgressive trappings (especially the frank sex scenes) ensure that the film is never dull, Rodrigues's beast-within metaphor is ultimately rather silly and overwrought, making the ambiguous ending seem goofy rather than provocative. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

With little dialogue, a murky night setting and the slowest of plots, this Portuguese fantasy only comes alive when it conforms to its true nature as arthouse pornography. Read full review

Dana Stevens

Both grueling and dull. Imagine (if possible) a Pasolini film without passion or politics, or an Almodóvar movie without beauty or humor, and you have some idea of the glum, numb experience of watching O Fantasma. Read full review

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RichardH.

Mar 1, 2007

Briliant movie about a young man who expresses himself through his body and sexual/erotic encounters in modern day Portugal. Fantastic.

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Anonymoususer

Sep 7, 2007

this is not a movie made to be digested by americans. no explosions, no CGI, no george clooney, no abc 123 training wheels plot. this is a painting of a path to sexual/pattern behavior slavery. the character may have been turned on at some point, but finds less and less fulfillment until he this is not a movie made to be digested by americans. no explosions, no CGI, no george clooney, no abc 123 training wheels plot. this is a painting of a path to sexual/pattern behavior slavery. the character may have been turned on at some point, but finds less and less fulfillment until he becomes a robot in a black suit who loses his ties to conventional society; eating garbage. hence the senseless finale. it is shot at night because that's where the character prowls... dear heavens, the comments here explain why Bush was elected. this is a movie about sexual repression turned mental illness; if you're looking for something else, go watch Transformers or the latest X-Men.… Expand

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CristianoG.

Oct 8, 2005

It's a intelligent movie about the society "despersonalization" that occurs nowadays. It's about a man that communicates through his own body. A man that looks for somethin real in his life; It´s a really good movie.

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