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Marquise of O

starring: Edith Clever, Ruth Drexel, Bernhard Frey, Bruno Ganz, Hesso Huber

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781572529267
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1572529261
Label: Fox Lorber
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Fox Lorber
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 05, 2000
Running Time: 102 minutes
Sales Rank: 82977
Studio: Fox Lorber
Theatrical Release Date: 1976



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After Eric Rohmer completed his 'Six Moral Tales,' and before launching into the 'Comedies and Proverbs,' he tackled two projects very different from anything else in his career. In the first of these, The Marquise of O, based on the novel by Heinrich von Kleist, Rohmer leaves the young intellectuals of Paris for Italy during the Napoleonic wars. During the Russian invasion, the beautiful young marquise (Edith Clever) is saved from certain assault by a handsome and dashing count (Bruno Ganz). She spends the night guarded by her chivalrous savior, who returns months later to rather insistently court her. Only when he leaves does she discover that she is, unaccountably, pregnant. Rohmer's style is both more lush (shot in rich colors by Néstor Almendros) and less intimate than his previous romantic comedies, directed in painterly compositions at a removed distance. Unlike the self-obsessed young adults of his modern films, the count and the marquise act out of moral duty and social responsibility, and their actions reverberate through family and community. Yet this is still a Rohmer film, filled with carefully tooled dialogue (spoken in German) and informed by irony. The story of innocence and corruption, and the shades that lie within even the best of men, ends on a note of delicate forgiveness and understanding. Rohmer followed this with an even more unexpected stylistic experiment, the beautiful and beguiling Perceval. --Sean Axmaker



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A simple tale, told in exquisite detail. PERFECT
I feel this is simply a perfect film. Every element works together to create a complete vision ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Dull film by Rohmer
This Franco-German coproduction is the weakest of Rohmer's historical movies (a group of films that includes ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Somewhat strange, but extremely original...
"Marquise of O" is a film directed by Eric Rohmer (Jean Marie Maurice Schérer), and based on a story written ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - German Movie: Can Rape turn into a great Romance?
First thing - although this is a DVD - there is no control to turn off the English subtitles. I like to do that ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Gorgeous cinematography!
Eric Rohmer's 1976 take on Heinrich Von Kleist's story "The Marquise of O" is a movie right up my alley. While I'm ... Read More

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