Mr. Arkadin
Discovering the past can be murder...
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: June 12, 2015
- Originally Released: 1955
- Label: Desert Island Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert Arden | |
Performer: | Paola Mori, Patricia Medina, Jack Watling, Katina Paxinou, Mischa Auer, Akim Tamiroff, Michael Redgrave & Orson Welles | |
Directed by | Orson Welles | |
Edited by | Renzo Lucidi | |
Composition by | Paul Misraki | |
Art Direction by | Orson Welles | |
Director of Photography: | Jean Bourgoin |
Entertainment Reviews:
Arkadin was, according to one of his business rivals, "a phenomenon of an age of dissolution and crisis." The world of Mr. Arkadin aptly reflects such an age.
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Parallax View
While the plot sometimes seems too fragmented for its own good, Welles' consistently inventive imagery nevertheless ensures that the action remains thoroughly engrossing.
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Filmjourney
This fractured Citizen Kane, built of frames within frames and mirrors within mirrors, is aptly brought to life by Welles's later style, born of low budgets and high anxiety, its grotesque closeups and cocked angles suggesting worlds and minds askew.
New Yorker
Engaging meller it may be, but missing the incisive delineation that marked Kane.
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Variety
A film, which, for all its strangeness, is seldom less than brilliant.
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New York Times
A passionate and personal reflection about what power represents. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Self-indulgent camp by a master of visual effects who lavishes them on a dime-novel story fabricated by himself; great comedown from Citizen Kane.
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Esquire Magazine
Product Description:
A dying man's final words send two people to Gregory Arkadin (Orson Welles), a mysterious and much-feared billionaire who lives on a Xanadu-like castle. In Welles's noirish MR. ARKADIN, Robert Arden stars as Guy Van Stratten, an adventurer and fortune hunter who is interested in Arkadin's money--and his daughter, Raina (Paolo Mori). Arkadin, overprotective of his daughter, has his "secretaries" prepare a damaging dossier on Van Stratten--entitled "Confidential Report." But Arkadin then makes a deal with Van Stratten--he will pay the young man for preparing a similar file on him, for Mr. Arkadin says he remembers nothing about his past and does not know where he came from. Even his name is a mystery. Van Stratten's search for the truth about Arkadin's past--which takes him throughout Europe and to Mexico and features encounters with a variety of fabulously colorful characters--is highly reminiscent of Thompson's search for Rosebud in CITIZEN KANE.
Shot in black and white, filled with elegant, cosmopolitan party scenes, and extraordinary close-ups, MR. ARKADIN is a visually stunning film. The camera angles and movement, the exotic sets, the playful music, and the quick cuts--as well as the extremely entertaining and metaphorical stories that Arkadin tells--all help make MR. ARKADIN a sublime treat.
Shot in black and white, filled with elegant, cosmopolitan party scenes, and extraordinary close-ups, MR. ARKADIN is a visually stunning film. The camera angles and movement, the exotic sets, the playful music, and the quick cuts--as well as the extremely entertaining and metaphorical stories that Arkadin tells--all help make MR. ARKADIN a sublime treat.
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- Sales Rank: 50,003
- UPC: 637801681369
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