Killing Me Softly (film)

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Killing Me Softly

Directed by	Chen Kaige
Produced by	Ivan Reitman
Written by	Sean French Kara Lindstrom
Starring	Heather Graham Joseph Fiennes
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	25 March 2003 (USA)
Running time	100 min.
Language	English
Budget	$25,000,000
IMDb profile

Killing Me Softly is a 2002 film directed by Chen Kaige and starring Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes. Based on the novel by Nicci French (aka. Sean French), it introduces several substancial changes to the story and focuses heavily on the intense sexual relationship between the main characters (at least for the first half of the movie). Still, the book remains the most overtly erotic version of the story.

Tagline: How can you escape...what you can't resist?

The film was Chen Kaige's first, and to date only English-language film.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
- 3.1 Filming
4 External links

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Killing Me Softly is a mystery/thriller about a young woman, Alice (Heather Graham) who finds her happy relationship with her boyfriend and comfortable job unsatisfying every time she meets a handsome stranger, Adam (Joseph Fiennes). Becoming obsessed with Adam and his strange ways, she leaves her boyfriend. However soon afterwards she learns that a serial killer is on the loose and begins to suspect Adam. She spends the remainder of the movie trying to uncover Adam's mysterious past and resist her sexual attraction towards him.

[edit] Cast

Heather Graham (Alice)
Joseph Fiennes (Adam)
Natascha McElhone (Deborah)
Ulrich Thomsen (Klaus)
Ian Hart (Senior Police Officer)
Jason Hughes (Jake)
Kika Markham (Mrs. Blanchard)
Amy Robbins (Sylvie)
Yasmin Bannerman (Joanna)
Rebecca Palmer (Michelle)
Ronan Vibert (Alice's Boss)
Olivia Poulet (Alice's Secretary)
Ian Aspinall (Alice's Work Colleague)
Helen Grace (Alice's Work Colleague)

[edit] Production

[edit] Filming

Filming commenced on October 29, 2000 and was mostly based in or around London, England and Cumbria, England.

[edit] External links

Killing Me Softly at the Internet Movie Database
Trailer at Virgin Movies

The Films of Chen Kaige
Yellow Earth (1984) • The Big Parade (1986) • King of Children (1987) • Life on a String (1991) • Farewell, My Concubine (1992) Temptress Moon (1996) • The Emperor and the Assassin (1999) Killing Me Softly (2002) • Together (2003) • The Promise (2005)