Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790736365 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 0790736365 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: May 04, 1999 Running Time: 111 minutes Sales Rank: 372 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: February 20, 1998
Amazon.com: Although it was unfortunately ignored during its brief theatrical release, this sumptuously seductive production is that rarest of cinematic breeds, the (barely) respectable guilty pleasure. Combining historical fact with hysterical anachronisms of language and mannerism, it's been tailored for maximum contemporary appeal but maintains a lush, romantic feel for its factual 16th-century tale of Venetian love, lust, and political repression. Catherine McCormack (Mel Gibson's ill-fated bride in Braveheart) delivers a star-making performance as the 'dangerous beauty' who becomes a skillful courtesan to pursue her forbidden love for a dashing Venetian senator (Rufus Sewell). It's all rather silly in a high-toned fashion, and the film turns dour when the church intervenes with a Scarlet Letter-like papal inquest. But the movie's joyously ribald vitality is utterly irresistible, and the casting of McCormack with Jaqueline Bisset (as her mother and courtesan mentor) is a stroke of pure genius. Merchant-Ivory would've made a smarter film from this material, but it probably wouldn't be nearly as entertaining. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating: - Extraordinary Period Piece
My wife and I truly enjoyed this film. The plot is marvelous and the story told with flair and artistic grace. The attention to detail, from the sets to the costumes and the historical accuracy are enlightening. I would watch this film over and over; it is that good.
Rating: - YOU MUST SEE !
I SAW AT THE THEATRE ONE EVENING AND FOR ALL THE WEEK I BEEN TO SEE IT AGAIN AND AGAIN . SO GREAT MOVIE . WHAT CAN I SAID IF YOU HAVEN'T SEE YOU MUST SEE IT AND JUDGE YORSELF .
Rating: - You sent 2 copies, I returned 1 and was never refunded for it.
Great Movie, true story, However I only needed ONE copy, NOT TWO!!!!! I returned the 2nd movie and still have not been refunded. Please refund my account for the movie that was returned!!!!!
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Amy
Rating: - Couldn't View
I have 2 movies that I need to return and neither of them work for me...
I am not sure why they are defective and I will return them but I have not had time to go to the post office but they will be returned. Sad because I love the movie
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