Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786305305767 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 6305305765 Label: Walt Disney Video Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Walt Disney Video Release Date: February 01, 2000 Running Time: 113 minutes Sales Rank: 20872 Studio: Walt Disney Video Theatrical Release Date: 1998
Rating: - Basil
This is dramatic and cruel story about naïve heir Basil (Jared Leto), who felt in love with one mysterious woman Julia (Claire Forlani) and married her. In fact she was in love with man John Mannion (Christian Slater), who had friendship with Basil. This story is passionate and treacherous.
Rating: - Give Wilkie Collins a Break
As an avid fan of Wilkie Collins, I knew from the start that this film would have a tragic twist. I was not disappointed! Although the film was not a blockbuster and certainly not a typical Victorian love story, it is a lavish production and contained enough twists and turns to keep me guessing to the end. It was worth the price to watch Christian Slater, Clare Forlani and Jared Leto. If any of the aforementioned actors lacked luster on the screen, I suspect it had more to do with the script's variance from Wilkie Collins novel. All in all, for period drama affecionados with an open mind, this film would be a welcome addition in any video library.
Rating: - Crazy bad film
I wanted bad to like this movie. I am a huge fan of Slater and Forlani. I saw this movie when it came out (I was 14) and was confused by it and didn't particularly like it, but obviously didn't form a solid opinion of the movie because I rented it again this week to see why I still didn't have an opinion of it. Now I know why.
The "mystery" of the film (spoilers below) has very little to do with the movie itself. I read in another review that this film is about "revenge gone wrong" when in fact this film is about revenge never happening! The movie provides an endless list of questions that are never answered.
Why is Basil so ridiculously gullible and naive to the point where you're just plain embarrassed for him?
How more could the director possibly spoil his own "mystery" with the cut rope near the beginning and Julia's constant hesitations with Basil?
Rating: - Certainly not up to the standard Bharadwaj set with her previous film, but not bad.
Basil (Radha Bharadwaj, 1998)
After Closetland, I considered Radha Bharadwaj one of the best directors I'd ever seen put images on film. Then... nothing. For seven years, nothing. And then came Basil, about as different a film from Closetland as it is possible to imagine. (And there has been nothing in the nine years since.)
Based on a Wilkie Collins novel, Basil is the story of, well, Basil (Jared Leto), an aristocrat whose father (Derek Jacobi, whose character is never named in the film) is an overbearing, class-obsessed bonehead. We see some stuff about Basil's young (read: played by someone younger than Jared Leto) life, then get into the meat of the story-- Basil, whose only friend is foundling Clara (Rachel Pickup), taken in by Basil's family at a young age, is rescued after injuring his ankle in a fall by John Mannion (Christian Slater). The two of them become close, and Basil ends up ... Read More
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