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The Ninth Gate
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Writer.....................: Arturo Perez-Reverte, John Brownjohn
Director...................: Roman Polanski
Release Date...............: March 10, 2000
Genre......................: Horror/Thriller
Tagline....................: Every book has a life of its own.
Plot.......................: A rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two
copies of a demon text, gets drawn into a conspiracy
with supernatural overtones.
Cast.......................: Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin
Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) is a rare-book dealer whose only motivation is financial
gain. Wealthy book collector Boris Balkan (Frank Langella) hires Corso to validate
The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, a book by 17th century author Aristide
Torchia, one of only three surviving copies, now in Balkan's possession. The book
contains nine engravings which, when correctly deciphered and the interpretations
properly spoken, are alleged to summon the Devil. Balkan suspects the book may be
a forgery, and hires Corso to travel to Europe, assess the other two known copies,
discover whether any are genuine, and if so, acquire them for Balkan at any cost.
Balkan's copy of The Nine Gates had previously belonged to Andrew Telfer, who
committed suicide shortly after selling the book to Balkan. Telfer's widow Liana
(Lena Olin) wants the book back, as Telfer originally bought the book for her.
Liana seduces Corso in a failed attempt to reacquire her book. Corso's business
partner and book store owner Bernie (James Russo), whom Corso had asked to hide the
book, is murdered in the style of one of the engravings in The Nine Gates. Like The
Hanged Man, Bernie is found hanging by one foot upside down.
Corso travels to Toledo, in Spain, and talks to the Ceniza brothers (Jose Lopez Rodero),
twin book restorers who show him that some of the book's engravings are signed "LCF."
Prompting Corso to guess who the initials refer to, the Cenizas agree when he responds
with "Lucifer." Corso next goes by train to Sintra, in Portugal, and visits Victor
Fargas (Jack Taylor), whose copy Corso compares with Balkan's, noting several variations
in the engravings. The next morning, Corso is awakened by a mysterious young woman
(Emmanuelle Seigner) with whom he has been crossing paths; she then leads Corso back
to Fargas' home to find him murdered and the engravings ripped out of his copy of
The Nine Gates. Later, the unnamed woman displays supernatural ability when she
rescues Corso from an attack by Telfer's bodyguard (Tony Amoni).
In Paris, Corso tracks down the third surviving copy owned by Baroness Kessler
(Barbara Jefford). He records additional differences in her copy before she is
killed and pages from her book are removed. Corso, now believing each copy of The
Nine Gates to be genuine, suspects that the secret to opening the nine gates can be
found in a combination of all three copies. Telfer steals Balkan's copy from Corso,
who follows her to a mansion to witness her using it to lead a Satanist ceremony.
Balkan suddenly interrupts the ceremony, kills Telfer, takes the torn out engravings
and his own intact copy, and drives away, revealing that he too believes that all
three copies are genuine.
Realizing that Balkan is responsible for the deaths of Victor Fargas and Baroness
Kessler, Corso locates Balkan and witnesses him preparing to open the gates himself.
However, because one of the engravings he uses is a forgery, Balkan's invocation fails
and he dies consumed by flames. The mysterious girl has sex with Corso and directs
him back to the Ceniza brothers' shop. There he discovers the final authentic engraving,
which includes a likeness of the mystery girl herself, thereby allowing Corso to
identify the correct location and travel through the ninth portal, to an unestablished
fate, at the film's conclusion.
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