Crimes of Passion (1984)

A Ken Russell drama with Kathleen Turner as a prostitute named China Blue, and Anthony Perkins as a religious nut wanting desperately to save her from her own vices while having plenty of his own.
It’s typical Russell, with religion, blasphemy, sex and bad acting alongside great acting, deeply metaphorical imagery and surreal editing, etc.
Most of the cast are laughable, as is some of the dialogue, but the scenes between Turner and Perkins are fantastic, staged and presented like a one-man and one-woman play. It’s those moments that kept me hooked, and a knowledge that even when Russell is dropping the ball there’s always something wonderful just around the corner.

3 peep holes into intimacy out of 5