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Binding: VHS TapeEAN: 9786305553700 Format: Color, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 630555370X Label: Kino International Languages: Manufacturer: Kino International Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Kino International Release Date: February 22, 2000 Running Time: 118 minutes Studio: Kino International Theatrical Release Date: 1996 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Great movie, bad picture qualityI Loved the movie, but the quality on the DVD is horrible. By far the worst I ever seen! I would give zero pionts to the picture quality, and 6 points (of 6 possible) to the movie. Rating:  - Debating OneselfThe genius behind The ogre, and its horror, is that the protagonist, Abel, is Everyman. Do we dare see ourselves in Abel? Are the cultural, racial, political, religious blinders that we unconsciously wear available to our conscious mind, or are we simply the victims of ignorance, rationalization or fear? To underestand a film like this one really has to be mature at all levels. Could I have been an unwitting dupe of the Nazis? Of course. And from this realization is born conscience and humility. Rating: - Children of Light, Children of DarknessIs a man's character forged at birth, in his genes---or is it determined by his experiences, by his loves, by his ambitions, by his will? What is the difference between a man and a child? Why is the dreamworld common to a child's playtime any more---or less---real than the often nightmarish, brutal 'reality' common to grown-ups? These are questions that Volker Schlondorff's fine, haunting, surreal and compulsively watchable "The Ogre" spends a great deal of time with, though Schlondorff is ... Read More Rating: - Masterpiece_Pace_ the anonymous Los Angelino who dismissed this film on the basis of a few morbid/vaguely scatalogical moments, this is one of my favorite movies. These moments are few and mild compared both to the original book _Roi des Aulnes_ by Michel Tournier (where I'd agree that they are overdone, without disputing the critical consensus that this is a rather great modern novel) and to the director's earlier film "The Tin Drum". Here Schlondorff should be congratulated for his restraint. He seems ... Read More Rating: - Original, featuring a fine performance by MalkovichThis strange and original work is a French film about Nazi Germany done in English. There are no subtitles. Director Volker Schlondorff is German, the screenplay is by veteran French writer Jean-Claude-Carriere, who has scores of films to his credit including Bell de Jour (1967) and Valmont (1989), and the star is the American, John Malkovich, who plays a French simpleton named Abel Tiffauges who ends up as a servant in Field Marshall Herman Goering's hunting estate during World War II, and then later ... Read More |
