The Emerald Forest R
What kind of man would return year after year for ten years to rescue a missing boy from the most savage jungle in the world? His father.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 2, 2014
- Originally Released: 1985
- Label: KL Studios Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Powers Boothe, Charley Boorman, Dira Pass & Meg Foster | |
Directed by | John Boorman | |
Edited by | Ian Crafford | |
Screenwriting by | Rospo Pallenberg | |
Produced by | John Boorman | |
Director of Photography: | Philippe Rousselot |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
John Boorman ought to be ashamed
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: 5/5 --
Conveys the ancient wisdom of the primitives who relish dream time and have found a way to dignify the different stages of life with meaningful rituals
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: 2.5/4 --
even if Boorman can be faulted on a narrative level, his cinematic eye almost matches his mythic aspirations
Q Network Film Desk
Rating: 4.5/5 --
An engrossing and insightful adventure flick - that actually has something to say.
eFilmCritic.com
Rating: 5/5 --
Emotionally gripping, visually stunning.
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Rating: 4/5 --
Just as he did with the British countryside in EXCALIBUR, Boorman gives the deep jungles of South America an almost dreamlike, magical quality
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eFilmCritic.com
...An uncommonly sensual adventure....It was one of the first important credits for the always dependable cinematographer Philippe Rousselot...
USA Today
Product Description:
Director John Boorman explores the tension between primitive and developed societies in this film starring Powers Boothe as engineer Bill Markham. While working on a dam on the Amazon in Brazil, Bill's son, Tommy (William Rodriquez), disappears while wandering in the forest, presumably kidnapped by Indians. A decade elapses, and the father continues to comb the jungle in search of the missing child, while shepherding the dam to completion. During one such search, Bill is wounded after a showdown with the Fierce People, an Indian tribe led by Jacareh (Claudio Moreno), and is rescued by a blond Indian teenager he recognizes as his son (Charley Boorman). But his joy is dimmed by the engineer's growing awareness that his son is now acculturated to a life as part of his tribe, the Invisible People, and as the husband of his wife, Kachiri (Dira Pass). For him, everything beyond the jungle is now "ghost land." During the absence of the tribe's men, the Fierce People stage a raid on their village, kidnapping their young women, including Kachiri, to sell as go-go dancers and prostitutes for the dam workers. A worthy and intriguing attempt to dramatize the depredations of a supposedly civilized race on the Amazon rainforest, the film is well acted by all, including Boorman's son, Charley, and is graced by Philippe Rousselot's magnificent photography of the Amazon jungle.
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- Sales Rank: 21,869
- UPC: 738329150129
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