Aria R
Ten great directors. One unforgettable film. The most sensual experience you'll ever have in a movie theater.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 26 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 1, 2018
- Originally Released: 1987
- Label: Lightyear Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Theresa Russell, Buck Henry, Beverly D'Angelo, Elizabeth Hurley, Julie Hagerty, Bridget Fonda, Tilda Swinton & John Hurt | |
Directed by | Nicolas Roeg, Charles Sturridge, Jean-Luc Godard, Julien Temple, Bruce Beresford, Robert Altman, Franc Roddam, Ken Russell, Derek Jarman & Bill Bryden | |
Music by | G. Verdi |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 1.5/5 --
Seriously, do vanity projects like this really need to be made? Don't we all have better things to do?
Filmcritic.com
Rating: 68/100 --
Is it worth watching a film composed of ten segments in order to appreciate three or four? It might not be worthwhile, but it would be a shame to miss Godard, Sturridge and Roddam's work.
Apollo Guide
So diverse in nature that it can only be evaluated piecemeal
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Rating: 3/5 --
Aria gives 10 filmmakers a chance to create vignettes set to well-known opera arias.
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: 2/5 --
The best of the 10 segments is, perhaps predictably, the rare one without lofty pretensions.
New York Times
Rating: 1/5 --
pretentious piffle that's pretty much one sour note after another
Kalamazoo Gazette
Rating: 4/5 --
Uneven compendium film. Russell, Temple, and Roddam are the best things. Goddard is the worst.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Product Description:
Producer Don Boyd brought together 10 of the world's most revered directors in order to pay homage to the opera with this episodic feature. Each director was asked to choose an aria from an operatic work and create a short film inspired by the emotions and intensity of the music rather than merely re-creating the opera itself. True to form, the result is a bizarre, moving, and broad work of entertainment. Standouts include Charles Sturridge's haunting LA VIRGINE DEGLI ANGELI, which follows a group of adolescents who steal a car and meet an early demise; Jean-Luc Godard's ARMIDE, an abstract visual tour de force that incorporates nude females floating around bodybuilders in midworkout; Franc Roddam's somber LIEBESTOD, which watches a young couple spending one last night in a Las Vegas hotel room; Derek Jarman's nostalgic DEPUIS LE JOUR, a moving ode to a life well lived; and Ken Russell's stimulating NESSUN DORMA, which breathes fresh life into the moment just before one dies. The directors use the works of their chosen composer--including Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Erich Korngold, Jean Philippe Rameau, Giacomo Puccini, Gustave Charpentier, and Ruggiero Leoncavallo--to tell stories about life, love, and loss as they feel it on a personal level, making ARIA more than just a sheer exercise in style.
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- Sales Rank: 66,603
- UPC: 085365648821
- Shipping Weight: 0.16/lbs (approx)
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