The Ninth Gate
- Title: The Ninth Gate
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Roman Polanski at his best gave us Chinatown and at his worst gave us Pirates. The Ninth Gate is a great suspenseful mystery as Johnny Depp is thrust into the world of the occult and dark knowledge. One of Polanski’s, and Depp’s, best films.
The film opens with an older gentleman, Andrew Telfer (Willy Holt), just finishing his affairs one evening. He then gets up from his desk and very matter of factly hangs himself from the chandelier of his study. The camera pans to the books of his study for in this film knowledge can bring both power and death.
Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) deals in finding rare and expensive books, a book detective if you will. His methods do not endear him to his competition as he will often sneak, lie, and trick his way into obtaining the object of his desire. A very wealthy client Boris Balkan (Frank Langella) purchased Telfer’s copy of The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows which was written in 1666 by Aristede Torchia before he was killed during the Inquisition for heresy and almost every copy was burned.
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