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With the lacerating love story Sid & Nancy, Alex Cox reimagines the crash-and-burn affair between punk’s most notorious self-destructive poster children: Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen—brought to visceral life by brilliant performances from Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb. Cox turns his anarchic filmmaking style on the explosive energy of the London punk scene and the degenerate streets of seventies New York, making for an eviscerating depiction of excess and addiction. Through the lens of cinematographer Roger Deakins, the imagery goes from swooning to grimy, and the film’s bleakness is balanced with surreal humor and genuine tenderness, making for an affecting, music-fueled vision of doomed love.

Alex Cox`s riveting biopic tells the bleak, heroin-drenched story of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his disturbed American girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. Gary Oldman delivers a bravura performance as Sid, matched by Chloe Webb`s grating, clearly unhinged Nancy. The two lovers` childlike tenderness with each other contrasts sharply with their bleak, violent nihilism, and while the script implies that Nancy`s death was accidental, the line between intention and accident is deliberately blurred. By turns romantic and horrific, SID & NANCY is often gruelling to watch, but always compelling. This follow-up to Cox`s cult hit REPO MAN was another critical success, showing that the director was as comfortable with reality-based material as with the satirical fantasy of his first feature. His romantic vision draws us in while throwing us back in time to London and New York at the inception of the drug-laden British punk era. The film`s dreamlike style and a hypnotic score dramatize the schism between Sid and Nancy`s world and the world around them - and the inevitable horror when those worlds collide.

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Actor Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Andrew Schofield, Courtney Love
Director Alex Cox
 
Languages English
Content DVD
Edition Special Edition
FSK / age rating from age 18
Publication date 14.05.2007
Genre Drama
Cult
Music
Documentary > Potrait, Biography
 
Length 108 minutes
Audio English (Dolby Digital 2.0)
Subtitles English (for deaf or hard of hearing)
Extras Audio commentary of the director, Interviews, Making of, Photo gallery, Trailer
Screen 16/9, 1.85:1
Year of production 1986
Original title Sid and Nancy
Region code 2
Version UK Version
 

Customer reviews

  • Garyyyyyyy !

    Written on 21. November 2016 by Bibo.

    This customer review refers to a alternative version.

    Un des meilleurs films de Gary Oldman.
    A voir surtout pour lui, encore plus que pour la passion du punk.
    Disons qu'il fait apprécier le film, même si on n'a rien à faire de ce mouvement musical rebelle ou des Sex Pistols.

    A voir en VO de préférence.

    Une très bonne fin.

  • na ja

    Written on 30. March 2006 by Kritiker.

    This customer review refers to a alternative version.

    Das Wiedersehen war nicht sooo toll. Als der Film neu war fand ich ihn toll, heute erscheint mir doch einiges etwas überzeichnet und viele der Protagonisten werden krass überzeichnet dargestellt. Gary Oldman allerdings überzeugt als Sid Vicous fast als einziger in dem übertriebenen Gehampel.

  • äntlech

    Written on 07. January 2005 by bänz.

    This customer review refers to a alternative version.

    jawohl äntlech isch es so wit,das es dä fium ou mau uf dütsch geit.

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