The Principles Of Lust
109 minutes,
UK (2003), 18
Average user rating 
(3.2 / 55 votes)
(3.2 / 55 votes)
A struggling writer meets an attractive single mother and a charismatic stranger with a fascination for low life, all on the same day. British drama starring Alec Newman and Sienna Guillory
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The Principles Of Lust Review
By Richard Luck
A struggling writer meets an attractive single mother and a charismatic stranger with a fascination for low life, all on the same day. British drama starring Alec Newman and Sienna Guillory
It's never a good thing to be compared with an iconic movie such as Fight Club -for many, one of the best pictures of the last 30 years. Few films could survive comparison with David Fincher's ground-breaking, Zeitgeist-surfing slice of cinema - and certainly not one as wretched as The Principles Of Lust.
Not that it's hard to see why people have labeled Penny Woolcock's picture the British equivalent of Fincher's savage satire. While Fight Club saw Edward Norton's mild-mannered, alienated narrator meeting Brad Pitt's devilish Tyler Durden, The Principles Of Lust has unemployed writer Paul (Newman, Bright Young Things) literally bumping into Billy (Warren, 'Band Of Brothers'), a charismatic photographer with a penchant for drugs, gambling, and - would you believe it? - bare-knuckle boxing. And, surprise, surprise, there's also a woman involved, attractive single mother Juliette (Guillory, Love Actually).
Not that it's hard to see why people have labeled Penny Woolcock's picture the British equivalent of Fincher's savage satire. While Fight Club saw Edward Norton's mild-mannered, alienated narrator meeting Brad Pitt's devilish Tyler Durden, The Principles Of Lust has unemployed writer Paul (Newman, Bright Young Things) literally bumping into Billy (Warren, 'Band Of Brothers'), a charismatic photographer with a penchant for drugs, gambling, and - would you believe it? - bare-knuckle boxing. And, surprise, surprise, there's also a woman involved, attractive single mother Juliette (Guillory, Love Actually).
"After 'Macbeth On The Estate', Penny Woolcock was touted as British cinema's Next Big Thing. The Principles Of Lust doesn't fulfill this destiny"
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