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Aria (1987)

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Reviews Counted:12

Fresh:6

Rotten:6

Average Rating:5.4/10

Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins

Genre: Musical & Performing Arts

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: Producer Don Boyd brought together 10 of the world's most revered directors in order to pay homage to the opera with this episodic feature. Each director was asked to choose an aria from an... Producer Don Boyd brought together 10 of the world's most revered directors in order to pay homage to the opera with this episodic feature. Each director was asked to choose an aria from an operatic work and create a short film inspired by the emotions and intensity of the music rather than merely re-creating the opera itself. True to form, the result is a bizarre, moving, and broad work of entertainment. Standouts include Charles Sturridge's haunting LA VIRGINE DEGLI ANGELI, which follows a group of adolescents who steal a car and meet an early demise; Jean-Luc Godard's ARMIDE, an abstract visual tour de force that incorporates nude females floating around bodybuilders in midworkout; Franc Roddam's somber LIEBESTOD, which watches a young couple spending one last night in a Las Vegas hotel room; Derek Jarman's nostalgic DEPUIS LE JOUR, a moving ode to a life well lived; and Ken Russell's stimulating NESSUN DORMA, which breathes fresh life into the moment just before one dies. The directors use the works of their chosen composer--including Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Erich Korngold, Jean Philippe Rameau, Giacomo Puccini, Gustave Charpentier, and Ruggiero Leoncavallo--to tell stories about life, love, and loss as they feel it on a personal level, making ARIA more than just a sheer exercise in style. [More]

Starring: Theresa Russell, John Hurt, Beverly D'Angelo, Anita Morris

Starring: Theresa Russell, John Hurt, Beverly D'Angelo, Anita Morris, Bridget Fonda, Buck Henry, Elizabeth Hurley

Director: Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Charles Sturridge, Julien Temple, Bill Bryden

Director: Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Charles Sturridge, Julien Temple, Bill Bryden

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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

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06/30/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

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06/09/05
Thomas Delapa
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

Aria gives 10 filmmakers a chance to create vignettes set to well-known opera arias.

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
08/28/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

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12/12/03
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

The best of the 10 segments is, perhaps predictably, the rare one without lofty pretensions.

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05/20/03
Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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Uneven compendium film. Russell, Temple, and Roddam are the best things. Goddard is the worst.

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02/02/03
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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09/03/02
Jeffrey Westhoff
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

pretentious piffle that's pretty much one sour note after another

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07/29/02
James Sanford
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette

Seriously, do vanity projects like this really need to be made? Don't we all have better things to do?

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08/16/01
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

Is it worth watching a film composed of ten segments in order to appreciate three or four? It might not be worthwhile, but it would be a shame to miss Godard, Sturridge and Roddam’s work.

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01/01/00
Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide
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01/01/00
Mark R. Leeper
Mark R. Leeper
rec.arts.movies.reviews

I am not sure that any indispensable statement about opera has been made here, and purists will no doubt recoil by the irreverence of some of the images. But the film is fun almost as a satire of itself.

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01/01/00
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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So diverse in nature that it can only be evaluated piecemeal

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01/01/00
Shane Burridge
Shane Burridge
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