Mr. Tornatore has achieved a great music appeal on his romance/drama/comedy movie. Mr. Roth plays amazingly the character "1900" which knows life just from inside the the ship he was born in. But I recommend this movie specially for those who love piano music (as the original soundtrack is as good or even better than the movie itself).
Undoubtly worthy !
This movie was for lack of a better term, "Deep"
Like the other reviewers, I have to say, this movie was a keeper. Why? Simply put, "...because of the music." Even a none music lover, will enjoy this movie. Forget the story line. The music tells the story. Don't ask me how this happened, but somehow I first watched this movie without the dialogue. I could hear glasses tinkle and footsteps, and all the background stuff, but no voices...and oh my goodness...the music! Most enchanting and enthralling of all is the scene where they have decided after all these years, to finally record the main character playing his music. As fate would have it, it happens on a day when a naturally pretty immigrant girl just happens to catch the eye of the pianist through a porthole, and what emerges from his fingers and the piano keys is one of the most poignantly romantic pieces of music to touch the hardest of hearts anyone has ever heard! You can tell just what he must be feeling just from the sound of the music. (I replayed this part over and over several times the first time I saw this movie). This film is one of those that you are likely to feel skeptical about at first, but will turn out to be one that you are ultimately glad you got just because of the feelings and emotions it will invoke in you through the music. It sort of puts you in the mind of the movie, "Somewhere In Time" with Chris Reeve and Jane Seymour with the music of Rachmaninoff, but without as good a story to go with the music. I hope my review inspires you to go out and rent/see/or buy the movie.
Legend of 1900
I happened on this movie one afternoon on the independent movie channel and was intrigued. I ordered it to share with friends who have all enjoyed it as much as I. I think this is one of the five best movies I have ever seen. I am a professional piano player so this might have colored my judgement. It was great.
Giuseppe Tornatore's beautiful 1988 film about a little boy's love affair with the movies deservedly won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film and a Special Jury Prize at Cannes. Philippe Noiret plays a grizzled old projectionist who takes pride in his presentation of screen dreams for a town still recovering from World War II. When a child (Jacques Perrin) demonstrates fascination not only for movies but also for the process of showing them to an audience, a lifelong friendship is struck. This isn't just one of those films for people who are already in love with the cinema. But if you are one of those folks, the emotional resonance between the action in Tornatore's world and the images on Noiret's screen will seem all the greater--and the finale all the more powerful. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Enzo Cannavale - Philippe Noiret Director(s): Giuseppe Tornatore DVD Release Date: Released the 18 February 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Mounted in high lavish style, from the opening strains to coda, The Red Violin pays homage to the careful uses of color and composition without bothering to support these qualities with any real substance. Oh, it's a class act on the surface all the way, while failing on nearly every other level to convince. The story tells the story, revealing precious little else. The 17th-century Cremonese instrument-maker Niccolo Bussotti finishes his final violin with a curious red varnish, the secret of which spans the film, yet will come as a surprise only to the very sleepy. The odd voyage of this unique violin through history is then explored from one episode to the next, from child prodigy to gypsies to Victorian virtuoso to a clandestine enclave of art lovers in Shanghai during the... More Info about this DVD Director(s): François Girard DVD Release Date: Released the 20 May 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Based on a story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Perfect Husband is a suspenseful hybrid of tense psychological drama and period love triangle. Set in Prague in 1900, this emotionally inhibited roller coaster revolves around three friends who met at a spa seven years ago. Gifted musician Milan (Tim Roth) is an unabashed womanizer who wins over even the most difficult-to-conquer women and whose propensity for seduction has led to 29 duels and counting with their affronted husbands. Wealthy spa manager Franz (Peter Firth) is much harder to read. His always proper, button-down demeanor cloaks a surprisingly tumultuous, fiery inner nature--when a stranger on a train, reminding him that smoking is not allowed, takes his pipe and throws it out the window, he calmly throws her dog out the... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Beda Docampo Feijóo DVD Release Date: Released the 02 January 2001 Usually ships within 24 hours
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I LOVE tornatore, I liked this film. i think anyone who loves seeing italy and italian culture should add a star too. that being said, i wonder, how much of this film did we see? the box does, as a reviewer pointed out, feature a ruby-lipped woman that just does not sell this movie for what it is. but what gets me, is there are three pictures on the back, and two of them arent in the film! i know that every copy other than the italian original and the korean version of "Malena" (highly reccommended for tornatore fans) were shortened by 11 minutes by miramax.. perhaps there was too much sex in the film for american censure; perhaps now there's not emough character development in the movie to completely fall in love with it. the other reviewers hit the nail on the head about the... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Sergio Castellitto - Tiziana Lodato Director(s): Giuseppe Tornatore DVD Release Date: Released the 04 February 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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