Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Year of Production: 2008
Format: 35mm
Running Time: 99 minutes
Certificate: 18
Theatrical Release date: 12th March 2010
DVD Release date: 26th April 2010

Following on from the highly successful IVANS XTC, a landmark in digital cinema, acclaimed director Bernard Rose (CANDYMAN) continues the re-imagining of Leo Tolstoy's controversial 19th Century literature, in the second part of a planned trilogy.

Once again featuring a stand-out performance by Danny Huston, THE KREUTZER SONATA probes further into the darker side of modern Hollywood society, exploring the rich complexities of love, obsession, and paranoia in a raw, emotional and sexually charged thriller based around the theme of Beethoven's classic sonata.

Edgar (Danny Huston X MEN: WOLVERINE, HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE), a wealthy philanthropist meets Abigail (Elisabeth Rohm LAW AND ORDER, HEROES), a beautiful and talented pianist. Their relationship quickly boils into a deep and passionate affair that knows no boundaries. When Abby starts work on Beethoven's violin-piano duet, THE KREUTZER SONATA, with a handsome young violinist named Aiden (Matthew Yang King NUMB3RS, CSI), Edgar's feelings soon transform into jealousy; over a part of her life he cannot share nor compete with. Before long chaos ensues...

"bold, brilliant and exhilarating... Bernard Rose... is showing stunning form with his modern adaptations of Tolstoy... a superbly creative adaptation." 4 STARS Critics' Pick
Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN

"startling... a compellingly threatening picture of poisonous jealousy and explosive psycho-sexual rage. Hats off to Danny Huston"
Mark Kermode, THE OBSERVER

"passion, pain and exquisite erotic agonies seep into the spaces between the notes. Danny Huston... is on superb form here... nervous tension... vibrates in the film like a static charge. The sex is raw, angry, animalistsic and suffused with almost as much hate as love." 4 STARS
Wendy Ide, THE TIMES

"a spellbinder." 4 STARS
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH SEVEN

"rated 18 for good reason...power to shock...a convincing and captivating composition of gutsy and naked performances." 4 STARS
THE METRO

4 STARS
THE TIMES PLAYLIST

"Bernard Rose... turns in his best film since the lacerating ivansxtc... Rose's elegant digital camerawork gets up close to watch the green-eyed monster in action - it's a model of low-budget candour and bite." 4 STARS
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

4 STARS
THE SATURDAY REVIEW, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

"This Sonata's passion is off the scale... a terrific new indie film... Danny Huston delivers his finest performance... Huston is magnificent throughout, his devlish, rakish demanour capturing a man bent on self-destruction. It's one of the most penetrating studies of male ego I've ever seen. It's a film that never shies from dangerous emotions, sexual frankness or sheer terror, and it uses Beethoven's music to majestic effect." 4 STARS
Jason Solomons, THE MAIL ON SUNDAY

"sex and violins... explicit rumpo... an arresting sight... a terrifyingly tense final act"
NEWS OF THE WORLD

"has the same watchability and intense atmosphere of Ivans XTC... Huston's... performance is remarkable and the way Rohm suggests, after marriage and two children, that life has become deadly without her music is particularly effective."
Derek Malcolm, LONDON EVENING STANDARD

"Rose... has proved himself a most dedicated Tolstoyan... will harrow anyone who has ever felt sexual jealousy (put it another way: anyone who's ever felt anything sexual)."
David Sexton, LONDON EVENING STANDARD

"It's got it all: graphic sex, spurting blood, classical music... shocking"
Richard Godwin, LONDON EVENING STANDARD

"a superbly prowling Danny Huston... a convincing composition of captivating and gutsy performances."
THE METRO

"Rose generates a bold, free energy...astonishingly raw performances tear through." 4 STARS
UNCUT MAGAZINE

"an intense exploration of desire, fear and rage."
FINANCIAL TIMES

"Danny Huston is exceptional"
CLASSIC FM MAGAZINE

"a brilliant film... delivering perhaps the finest, most searching performance of his career is Danny Huston"
Jason Solomons, THE GUARDIAN FILM WEEKLY

"impressive... powerful... very brilliant piece of acting... by Danny Huston."
Kevin Jackson, Cultural Historian, NIGHTWAVES, BBC RADIO 3

"superbly directed, brilliantly written... exerts a vice-like grip and doesn't let go, thanks to riveting performances from Huston and Rohm. Hitchcock would be proud. Highly recommended." 4 STARS
VIEW LONDON

"both actors (Huston and Rohm) are excellent... an arresting drama"
SCREENJABBER

"intense"
RADIO TIMES

"With an increasingly claustrophobic, slowly congealing sexual atmosphere, the hero's descent into the maelstrom of paranoia, myopic obsession and jealousy is darkly compelling"
KULTURE FLASH

"a strong performance from Huston... hypnotic in its emotional power... startling and tragic."
CLOSE UP FILMS

"Rohm... is magnificent"
ORSONWELLS.COM

"Rose masterfully creates something astoundingly fresh... a delicate, intelligent expose on 21st century gender power play. A terrifying danse macabre between the sexes"
DOG AND WOLF.COM