The Affair of the Necklace R
In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 2.35:1
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: March 14, 2017
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Hilary Swank, Simon Baker & Jonathan Pryce | |
Performer: | Adrien Brody, Brian Cox, Joely Richardson, Paul Brooke, Hayden Panettiere, Peter Eyre & Christopher Walken | |
Directed by | Charles Shyer | |
Edited by | David Moritz | |
Screenwriting by | John Sweet | |
Composition by | David Newman | |
Produced by | Redmond Morris, Andrew A. Kosove, Broderick Johnson & Charles Shyer | |
Director of Photography: | Ashley Rowe |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: D- --
Much of the dramatic juice and intrigue have been drained out of this old-fashioned costume drama, that in the hands of director Charles Shyer and actress Hilary Swank becomes stiff, stuffy, and banal affair.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 2/4 --
The storytelling is hopelessly compromised by the movie's decision to sympathize with Jeanne.
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Chicago Sun-Times
The entire film seems a series of disjointed pieces, a screenful of iron filings waiting in vain for the magnet that will line them up in a unified field.
Boston Globe
Rating: 2/4 --
...what really sinks the film is its script...
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Reel Film Reviews
Rating: C --
The film has a desperate, disjointed feel that suggests the filmmakers realized it wasn't working and kept trying, ineffectually, to fix it.
Houston Chronicle
Swank's honest mistake is in trying to be worthy of a project that's beneath her.
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Blogcritics.org
Rating: 2.5/5 --
... takes a fascinating footnote and reduces it to a mediocre and fitfully entertaining film.
Baseline.Hollywood.com
Description by OLDIES.com:
This tale of intrigue and corruption is based on a true account of 18th Century French noblewoman Jeanne de la Motte-Valois (Hilary Swank), whose family has been dispossessed of status and title by the king. To restore honor to her name and reclaim her family estate, Jeanne must have her lineage officially authenticated at the court of Versailles. After several unsuccessful attempts to obtain an audience with Marie Antoinette (Joely Richardson), Jeanne finds an ally in male courtesan Rétaux de la Villette (Simon Baker), who advises her to try and gain influence at court by attracting a wealthy sponsor: Cardinal Rohan (Jonathan Pryce), a ruthless man whose appetite for women is only exceeded by his appetite for power. Aided by Villette, her estranged husband Nicolas (Adrien Brody), and an enigmatic foreign mystic, Count Cagliostro (Christopher Walken), Jeanne becomes embroiled in an elaborate scheme involving the cardinal, the queen, and the theft of a priceless diamond necklace.
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- Sales Rank: 51,480
- UPC: 888574474621
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