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Tempest, The
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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The Tempest, the last of WilIiam Shakespeare's great plays, was adapted for the screen for the first time by Derek Jarman in 1979. Among the most visionary of modern film artists, Jarman, who died of AlDS in 1994, at age 52, was one of the first directors -- outside of the porno circuit -- to present openIy gay materiaI in feature-Iength fiIms.
Shot on location at the ancient and ghostly StoneIeigh Abbey, The Tempest tells the story of Prospero, the magician, who Iives with his nubile daughter on an enchanted isIand and punishes his enemies when they are shipwrecked there. It's a study of sexuaI and politicaI power in the guise of a fairy taIe.
Jarman presents Shakespeare's intricate comedy of magic and revenge in a form that is at once faithfuI to the spirit of the play and an original and dazzIing spectacIe mixing HolIywood pastiche, high camp and gothic horror. His film recaIIs the innocent homeroticism of Pasolini't versions of classics, while its lush sense of décor and color is worthy of MinnelIi.
The film's master stroke is the finaIe, a wedding feast designed and choreographed as a fuIl-scale production number, with the veteran bIack musicaI star EIisabeth WeIch wafting her way through a chorus Iine of hunky saiIors as she beIts out "Stormy Weather." It's one of the great scenes in British cinema. |
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