- Category: Video » Drama » Drama, General
- Format: DVD Learn more about the DVD format using Tower WIKI.
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- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC/EAN: 043396109100
- WAPI (Tower ID): 107058815
- Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Release Date: May 10, 2005
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #3336 in Movies (See Top 100 Movies Bestsellers)
- #589 in Drama (See Top 100 Drama Bestsellers)
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Review
New York Times, 12/29/2004, p.E1, "[I]ntelligent without being showily clever....Watching the film is like seeing a gallery of Renaissance paintings come to life..." Los Angeles Times, 12/29/2004, p.E16, "[R]emarkably immediate and contemporary without ever seeming to strain for this effect." Entertainment Weekly, 01/14/2005, p.64, "[I]t attains a bona fide Shakespearean vibrance." Rolling Stone, 01/27/2005, p.68, "Pacino, tackling a tough trap of a role, raises the bar in a mesmerizing acting triumph." Uncut, 01/01/2005, p.155, "The Brits do their dependable Bardic stuff, and the clarity of Irons' diction lets the playwright's meaning ring like a bell."
Title Note
THEATRICAL RELEASE: DECEMBER 29, 2004
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Product Notes
One of the immortal bard's most frequently performed works gets a first-rate cinematic treatment here, via director Michael Radford (IL POSTINO). Al Pacino is virtually unrecognizable as Shylock, bringing an old-world gravitas to the role and clearly inspiring the rest of the cast to match his intensity. They succeed, and the result is riveting, rousing entertainment. Even if one is familiar with the play in advance, this is white-knuckle suspense and swooning romance all the way through. A 16th-century Venetian sea merchant (Jeremy Irons), devoted to a young lord (Joseph Fiennes), owes a debt for "a pound of flesh" to the anguished Jewish moneylender Shylock. Lovingly filmed in Venice, the film looks great, with settings and costumes all sporting a dusky, lived-in look that matches the subdued, naturalistic interpretation of the dialogue. Lynn Collins is excellent and ethereal as Portia, and her love scenes with Fiennes have an alchemical power that lifts them to dizzyingly mythic romantic heights. Vague homoerotic content and the grim realities of Jewish oppression are not shied away from here, which lends the film further richness and complexity. With the play's rich array of dramatic and comedic elements all perfectly in tune, MERCHANT OF VENICE earns its place as the first truly great Shakespeare film of the 21st century.
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