one of my absolute favorites!

Absolutely Fantastic

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

dark. cold. an impossible love story.and large doses of sensuality. and the revenge. a film who reminds old thrillers and who, against the not best sigh, it is powerful, convincing, dramatic, bitter and, maybe, great.because its themes are familiar. because madness has a seductive portrait. for the actors and for few parts of story. for a form of romanticism who , far to be only convincing, it is more than dramatic. for the taste of atmosphere. for the choices and for the decisions. and for the end. a film about happiness. in precise manner.

In the 50's, the psychiatrist Max Raphael (Hugh Bonneville) is hired to work as superintendent of an asylum in the outskirts of London, and he moves with his wife Stella Raphael (Natasha Richardson) and their son Charlie (Gus Lewis). Stella has a passionless marriage and is ignored by Max; her boredom changes when her son befriends the handsome inmate Edgar Stark (Marton Csokas), an sculptor that in a crisis of jealousy had killed and disfigured his wife, and that is treated by Dr. Peter Cleave (Ian McKellen), an ambitious psychiatrist that aspired Max's position. During the afternoons, Stella has a hot adulterous affair with Edgar until the day he escapes and their affair is discovered. Stella has to take a decision between her family and her wild passion for Edgar."Asylum" is a sort of combination of "Madame Bovary" with "La Ragazza di Trieste", telling the wild and tragic passion of an ignored and bored woman and her descent into a hell life with a madman. The narrative is sexually tense, and the still sexy Natasha Richardson has a fantastic performance in the role of a woman that becomes obsessed by her destructive desire. Her chemistry with Marton Csokas is amazing, combining tension, madness and eroticism in a stylish cinematography. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Paixão Sem Limites" ("Passion Without Limits")

This is undoubtedly a good film, well acted, good period feel / details etc.. and I certainly enjoyed it, however, by the time I had finished watching it I couldn't help feeling that the it was somewhat out of balance. The last part of the film is all about Cleave getting his revenge on the errant couple because of his jealousy over the fact that Edgar had been stolen away from him. Unfortunately, the dramatic effect is lessened because not enough is made of his relationship with the pair early on in the film. Hints are given that he has a homosexual fixation on Edgar and that he is jealous when Stella starts to get too close to Edgar. Much more should have been made of this aspect to explain his vindictive behaviour towards the pair when he has them in his control at the climax, especially as the scenes where he deals directly with Edgar are very brief. Whether what we see is as a result of severe editing or whether the whole thing could have been written better I don't know. I plan to read the novel to find out whether more is made of this. Worth seeing, but certainly flawed.

i have seen this movie and its OK but far away from a good one.its little bit about love ,insanity and this is all have seen this movie and its OK but far away from a good one.its little bit about love ,insanity and this is all.i have seen this movie and its OK but far away from a good one.its little bit about love ,insanity and this is all.i have seen this movie and its OK but far away from a good one.its little bit about love ,insanity and this is all.i have seen this movie and its OK but far away from a good one.its little bit about love ,insanity and this is all.PS if you don't have anything to do...watch it !