Impulses

Synopsis

Kate Miller, around fifty and sexually frustrated, follows a psychotherapy. Feeling youth to escape to him, it will succumb to an unknown met with the museum.

This meeting will be fatal for him: while returning to seek the ring which she had forgotten in her lover, she will meet death in the elevator. Liz Blake, prostitute, saw the scene in the mirror of the cabin: a blonde lacerated Kate Miller with a razor.

Comment

If the film fishes by some small blisters (a little pomade hitchcockienne), it deserves to be considering only for its sequence of anthology of the dredger to the Metropolitan Museum off Art: 9 minutes 40 second dumb women where Kate Miller, as a sexually frustrated woman, will pass by all the states.

A beautiful specimen of male assied at its sides vis-a-vis portraits which seem to doubt themselves the beneficial exit of the thing (the table with the brown woman with the perplexed glance). Kate is initially disappointed not to be immediately alongside by the beautiful unknown remaining without reaction in front of its glance enjolor. Considering that it startled perhaps the Mister by one invites too direct with its pleasing smile, Kate takes off a glove to spread out its alliance proving, according to it, that it is not the easy woman that one believes. The Mister leaves their bench then.

From there, passing from room in room in the search of “its prey”, Kate passes in the same way by all the contradictory states of the dissatisfied feverish woman to the exacerbated libido: shameless, offended, éperdue, failing, offered… After its pair of gloves was recovered by two different hands, that of the defended pleasure and that of the punishment, the sequence is completed by the very direct contact of Kate with “its conquest” which tightens the glove of the lust to him towards which it runs without more any reserve and seeing, by crossing it, its next severe death…

Data sheet

Title: Impulses
original Title: Dressed to Kill
Realization: Brian De Palma
Scenario: Brian De Palma
Production: Samuel Z. Arkoff, Fred C. Caruso and George Litto
Budget: 6,5 million dollars (4,93 million euros)
Music: Pino Donaggio
Photography: Ralf D. Bode
Assembly: Gerald B. Greenberg
Artistic director: Gary Weist
Costumes: Gary Jones and Ann Roth
Country of origin: the United States
Format: Colors - 2,35:1 - Mono - 35 mm
Kind: Horror, thriller
Lasted: 105 minutes
Comings out date: June 3rd 1980 (Germany), July 25th 1980 (the United States), March 15th 1981 (France), June 7th 2000 (arisen France)
Film prohibited with less than 16 years at the time of its exit in France

Distribution

Michael Caine: Doctor Robert Elliott
Angie Dickinson: Kate Miller
Nancy Allen: Liz Blake
Keith Gordon: Peter Miller
Refusals Franz: the inspector Marino
David Margulies: Doctor Levy
Ken Baker: Warren Lockman
Susanna Clemm: Betty Luce
Torch Maggart: Cleveland Sam
Amalie Collar: the cleaning lady
Mary Davenport: the woman at the restaurant
Anneka Di Lorenzo: the nurse
Norman Evans: Ted
Robbie L. McDermott: the man under the shower
Bill Randolph: taxi
Sean O' Rinn: taxi of the museum
Fred Weber: Mike Miller

Around film

the original title, Dressed to Kill , is an English expression meaning “to be drawn with four pins, to be on its thirty and one” but which means literally “equipped to kill”, definition which takes all its direction in film…
typical Représentant of this series of films which were worth in Brian to undergo a lazy filiation with large the Alfred Hitchcock, Pulsions is undoubtedly not the copy of a studious pupil but well a personal prolongation of the work of the Master. At the top surely, the sequence of spinning mill to the museum haunted by the phantom of Kim Novak.
turning take place mainly with New York. With regard to the scenes of the museum, outsides were turned to New York, but the interiors proceeded with the Philadelphia Museum off Art of Philadelphia.
Brian De Palma wished that the role of Kate Miller be interpreted by Liv Ullmann, but the actress refused the proposal. The scenario writer had also proposed the role of Robert Elliott to Sean Connery, which to refuse because of preceding engagements.

Distinctions

Price of the best actress for Angie Dickinson and nomination at the price of best film of horror, better realizer and better music, by the Academy of science fiction films, fantastic and horror in 1981.
Nomination with the Golden Globe of the female revelation of the year in a film for Nancy Allen in 1981.
Nomination at the price of the worst realizer, worse actor for Michael Caine and worse actress for Nancy Allen, at the time of the Razzie Awards in 1981.

External bonds

Impulses on Internet Movie Database
Critical DevilDead

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