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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD EAN: 0807280127997 Format: Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled Label: Arthaus Musik Languages: Manufacturer: Arthaus Musik MPN: 101279 Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Arthaus Musik Release Date: April 24, 2007 Running Time: 108 minutes Studio: Arthaus Musik Theatrical Release Date: 2007 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Perfect MusicThe music in this dvd is simply gorgeous. It's complex, terrific, sarcastic, cynical... just one of the best operas of the second half of the last century. The libretto is also great, as it creates a dark landscape of sorrow and despair (just like a hell). It also achieves creating a myth, that only the best ones (Strauss and Hoffmannstahl's, Wagner's, etc.)achieve at doing. Tatiana Troyanos as Jeanne is amazing, and the conductor Marek Janowski manages to create a rich amount of sounds from ... Read More Rating:  - Spare yourself!I've given this "opera for TV" five stars, but I urge you seriously not to watch it. It's extraordinarily painful, and enough pain will come your way without the help of music and cinematography. Still, anything that disturbs me so strongly must be potent art in its way. This is a depiction of dementia (as in possession by demons), sado-masochism, flagellation, torture, and burning alive at the stake. It could, I suppose, be perceived as an indictment of religious depravity and the corruption ... Read More |
