Marat / Sade
starring: Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson, Michael Williams, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson
directed by: Peter Brook
directed by: Peter Brook
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792850335
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792850335
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 24, 2001
Running Time: 120 minutes
Sales Rank: 14306
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1966
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Directed by Peter Brook and based on the TonyÂ(r) Award-winning play by Peter Weiss, this spellbinding tale of 'slashing power and disturbance (The Film Daily) bristles with the riveting energy and excellent (Variety) performances by the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company, including Ian Richardson and Patrick Magee. Brimming with raving lunatics, crackling whips, catatonicseizuresand even musical interludesMarat/Sade is an exciting, overwhelming [and] stunning tour de force (Boxoffice)! When notorious social criticand inmate of Charenton's asylum for the insanethe Marquis de Sade (Magee), stages a play about the murder of the French Revolution's Jean-Paul Marat, the production takes on an alarming life of its own. And as tempers flare,arguments rage and chaos engulfs both the sane and the mad, the inmates finally turn against their keepersin a brilliant, breathtaking and completely bizarre conclusion'that will leave you raving for more!
Amazon.com essential video:
In 1964, German playwright Peter Weiss wowed the international theater scene with his Berlin production of The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade. An instant sensation, the play caught the attention of iconic theater director Peter Brook, whose own stage production captivated audiences in New York the next year. Brook then filmed his production in 1966, and the resulting movie, Marat/Sade, stands as one of the best-loved screen adaptations of a play, by both critics and theater fans alike. (The 1996 film Quills is a good example of the story's lasting resonance.) As can be surmised by the play's original title, the action focuses on the Marquis de Sade (Patrick Magee) circa 1808, who, while imprisoned at Charenton Asylum, writes and directs a play starring his fellow inmates. Dramatizing the final hours of French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat (Ian Richardson) before he was killed by Charlotte Corday (Glenda Jackson, in one of the defining moments of her career), de Sade offers the play as an entertaining whim for the tiny audience of asylum director Coulmier (Clifford Rose) and his family. Utilizing the 'theatre of cruelty' theory of avant-garde pioneer Antonin Artaud--once an asylum inmate himself--Brook's presentation of Marat/Sade confronts with jagged language, sounds and visuals, in an attempt to shock the movie audience into dissatisfaction and action against the status quo, mirroring the way de Sade's play within the film stirs the asylum inmates to high dudgeon and revolution. --Heather Campbell
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- Brilliant/PerfectYou ever watch a movie that just sends chills up and down your body from beginning to end? You ever ... Read More
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- WHY -for Pete's sakes- IS THIS NOR AVAILABLE ON A DVD FOR REGION 2 ???????An excellent movie, which is no more or less than stunning, stark and bleak filmed version of Peter Weiss' ... Read More
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- The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction This is an amazing film along with being an amazing play. Peter Brook, who is one of the world's most renowned ... Read More
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- Great for Theatre StudentsI have to say I enjoyed this one more when I was a theatre student and obsessed with theatre of the absurd. Its ... Read More
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- Brillaint and intenseMarat / Sade is an incredible theatrical production that was captured well in this film. Complaints that has been ... Read More
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