Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets and gets into bed with in Paris, Marieke, turns out to be an arts expert Harry's clients are using to check the counterfeit picture he painted.
Acting
Irène Jacob brings ethereal gravity to a plot that doesn't deserve her
Cinematography
Gloomy Amsterdam canals and Parisian hotel rooms dripping with false intimacy
Direction
Badham treating 90s erotic thriller tropes like they're Shakespeare
Director
John Badham
Jason Patric
Harry Donovan
Irène Jacob
Prof. Marieke van den Broeck
Ian Richardson
Turley (prosecutor)
Rod Steiger
Milton A. Donovan
Thomas Lockyer
Alastair Davies
Simon Chandler
Iain Ill
Pip Torrens
White (Defense)
Michael Cochrane
Detective Inspector Deeks
Togo Igawa
Thomas Agachi
Joseph Blatchley
Professor Scheerding
Paul Brennen
Detective Sgt. Steed
Olivier Pierre
Lecuyer
Dudley Sutton
Offul
Adam Fogerty
Ugo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jason Patric spent months learning to paint in Rembrandt's style; most close-ups of brushwork are actually his. The studio fired three consultants who said his technique was 'too good to be plausible for an amateur.'
This was one of the last major studio productions to use actual film stock for forgery sequences—digital color grading couldn't yet replicate the 'living' quality of 17th-century pigments under tungsten light.
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