Aria (Blu-ray) R

Ten great directors. One unforgettable film. The most sensual experience you'll ever have in a movie theater.
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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 26 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: March 7, 2017
  • Originally Released: 1987
  • Label: Lightyear Video

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Directed by , , , , , , , , , &
Music by

Entertainment Reviews:

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Total Count: 12

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 2,268
Rating: 3/5 -- Aria gives 10 filmmakers a chance to create vignettes set to well-known opera arias. Full Review
Spirituality and Practice
Aug 28, 2004
Rating: 3/4 -- I am not sure that any indispensable statement about opera has been made here, and purists will no doubt recoil by the irreverence of some of the images. But the film is fun almost as a satire of itself. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Jan 1, 2000
...Exhilaratingly successful....[The] costumes, staging and locations are worthy of any great opera production and the sound quality is loud and clear and crisp...
Variety
May 27, 1987
So diverse in nature that it can only be evaluated piecemeal
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: 2/5 -- The best of the 10 segments is, perhaps predictably, the rare one without lofty pretensions.
New York Times
May 20, 2003
Rating: 1/5 -- pretentious piffle that's pretty much one sour note after another
Kalamazoo Gazette
Jul 29, 2002
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
Jan 1, 2000

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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