No Night Is Too Long

When he first meets up with her in the hotel, I notice a wedding ring. The conclusion I jump to, being the ever so clever chap I am, I guess she's a nun in the midst of a crises of faith. So, I'm susceptible to being mislead. I love it! Truly outstanding story telling. This film will only disappoint if you are wanting graphic nudity and steamy sex scenes.

Wow. Great suspense movie. Nice to see this is not a gay movie; it's a movie with a normal dramatic thriller story, but it just so happens that there are gay and bi-sexual characters. Glad this is not another coming of age movie about being gay. You could have replaced the characters with a female & male relationship, and it would have worked.Taking place in England, a young university student who is a bit of a playboy with the ladies ends up crossing paths with a male university professor. The two experiences attractions. As an audience we later find out that the university student once experienced a short lived relationship as a choir boy with a more senior choir boy and thus, had a gay experience in the past. The university professor falls in love with the young man, but the young man isn't sure of his own feelings even though at first he was crazy about the professor. From an earlier request by the young man, the professor invites him on a lecture cruise trip together to Alaska. By the time of the trip, the young man lost interest with the professor and falls for another woman he meets there. However, the woman has to leave Alaska to return to her home in Vancouver. The young man's feelings for the woman becomes so strong he can't help himself, but to find her again. At this point, the movie gets suspenseful and the relationship between all the characters get muddled into this amazing intrigue while the young man explains his story of a murder mystery. The movie takes you back in time to all the events until it comes back to the present time. In the end, you learn who the murderer is, and how the young man reacts to his present time reality, still with a suspense of what will happen next.This movie would be above rated R as there are sexual scenes and frontal and backside nudity. You do need to be someone with a liberal mind to watch this film. Definitely not for the conservatives.

It's been a while since I have come across a really good thriller; the last one was STOKER. But this isn't just a good thriller, it's simply a really good movie all around: the acting, script, directing, cinematography, sound - All of it excellent! And to think I almost didn't buy it.This little gem begins in a small, English coastline village where a young man and his girlfriend are making out. Then the boyfriend spies an older man, late twenties/early thirties, watching the young lovers. The older man is blond, mysterious, good-looking. The boyfriend becomes intrigued, and for a moment, forgets the girl. The boyfriend grows even more interested when he begins seeing the older man everywhere he goes; on their college campus, in an elevator, outside a window. So the young man follows the older, into an elevator one day, just barely making the lift, so enthralled is he. He follows the older man to an office, where he discovers the man to be one of the Professors of their college, a bio-something Professor who travels across the globe every six months to do lectures on...something boring and I couldn't care less. But whatever, the guy is hot and he's got that leather thing going on. So pretty quickly, the young boyfriend and the old Professor are hooking up and it's good. The boyfriend can't get enough of the Professor - or so he says, whining, begging, complaining. When the Professor announces he has to go to Alaska for a month, the young boyfriend flips out, breaks down, crying his heart out, "I need you!" It's heartfelt and totally believable. Until the Professor confesses his love of the boyfriend.I have actually met people like this in my own life, and let me tell you, when I walked away from them, the last thing I felt was empathy but here; the dialogue and acting were so sublime, I actually forgot I was watching a movie! Seriously, I thought I was watching Investigation ID or something. And I did feel empathetic toward the young boyfriend. How horrible would it be to feel as though you couldn't possibly live without someone and then, BAM! Feel that sensation vanish on the wind. You don't know if what you felt was real or not, and now it's too late. To live in such confusion, and regret.I won't give the ending away but let's just say that all the players of this magnificent piece of art will not soon be forgot. Once you watch, you too will be ensnared within their web.

As a long-time fan of Ruth Rendell (aka Barbara Vine), I have been excited about seeing this particular film as it happens to be my favorite novel of hers. I finally located the film on YouTube and later on the Logo network but the quality was not up to par and the Logo version was edited and full of commercials. I was pleasantly surprised to see the DVD finally offered on Amazon (and at $3.77, how can you go wrong?)It turns out the quality of the DVD is fantastic and the film itself is very well-done and effectively captures the dark, psychological spirit of the novel. The atmospheric story, which takes place in England sea-side town and the Pacific Northwest, centers on Tim Cornish, a bi-sexual who falls in and out of love very easily and encounters complications when his current boyfriend doesn't want to give him up. That is a simple synopsis to a quite complicated and intense story.This is a film that would have made Hitchcock proud - indeed a key sequence that takes place on an Alaskan cruise is expertly edited, creating great tension and accompanied by an excellent score.At first, I was disappointed when I saw the actors. I did not think they matched their descriptions in the novel. However, I quickly changed my mind when I realized how good they are. Both Lee Williams and Marc Warren do a fantastic job. Marc Warren is especially sexy and menacing. Their chemistry is great and the sex scenes are hot.The only quibble I have with the entire movie is the fact the gay characters are unfortunately stereotypical. However, the film is so well-done, I can overlook that.

I watched this when it first was shown on TV many years ago and thought it the best TV film I've ever seen and was very pleased to see it was now available on DVD. The story (no spoilers) is convoluted and complicated and I still didn't understand how Tim received the spooky letters which crop-up in story. Perhaps I need to watch it again. The Seaside setting is very familiar to me, Benjamin Britten land if you didn't already know, which makes a pleasant change and the excerpts from the opera Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss was just wonderful. Thoroughly enjoyable.

A fair adaptation of Barbara Vines book of the same title, with a lovely piece of recurring music from Der Rosenkavalier. Once I reread the book, I felt it was time to revisit the movie once again - like revisiting an old friend.

Película No Night is too long: Si es tal como estaba descrita. Me ha gustado, aunque ya conocía el argumento porque he leído el libro. La recomiendo. No entiendo cómo siendo una película británica no exista un DVD a la venta con subtítulos en inglés. Si se editase algún día un DVD región 2 con subtítulos en inglés estaría interesada. Gracias y un saludo.

Bellissimo questo film, la storia mi ha subito colpita unico difetto e' che non si possono togliere i sottotitoli in francese il che' disturba un po' la visione, ma per il resto lo consiglierei a chi ama il genere boys love, romantico ma con una punta di suspance sino all'epigolo inatteso.

Si vous aimez les romans de Ruth Rendell, qui a inspiré, par une de ses nouvelles, ce film, vous vous laisserez emporter par cette atmosphèresubtile et insidieuse q'elle sait si bien instiller, et qui le parcourt tout du long.C'est le genre d'histoire à laquelle, comme le héros, on voudrait bien pouvoir échapper, combien de fois, n'ai-je pas été tentée d'en arrêter les images, mais non,quand on le regarde, impossible de le quitter !Et si vous n'aimez pas cet auteur, vous apprécierez certainement, l'interprétation, tout en sensibilité et en sensualité, du bel acteur qu'est Lee Williams, ce jeune homme au regard si clair...Confronté aux tourments de l'amour, alors qu'une ombre machiavélique envahit son ciel, homo ou hétéro ? la réponse ne vous apparaitra qu'à l'ultime image de ce très beau film... envoûtant !