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Danton [1983]
from Metrodome Distribution
starring Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro, Roland Blanche, Patrice Chéreau
directed by Andrzej Wajda

Features:

• Anamorphic
• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Masterpiece!
  Wajda's coup de maître. Depardieu is fabulous and so are all supporting actors, even the dubbed Polish actors. And what a great story!

• Not quite a masterpiece
  This has some of the very best of actors and would have been a better showcase for them if the film making itself rather than just the dialogue had been more potent. Lacking much action, vistas, emotive music, with no real visual depiction of ancient Paris, the whole film felt staid and, although brilliantly acted, fails to hold the viewer's attention even if you have a love of French history and cinema. Gratutiously gory, the most attention to detail appears to be the guillotine scenes so don't forget to... more info

• "Show them my head - it's worth it!"
  Seen almost a quarter of a century on, Andrzej Wajda's Danton seems very much a film of its time. What once seemed so urgent and relevant to the political turmoil in Poland in the 80s now plays like a rather dreary and drawn out history lesson about the last days of the post-Revolutionary Terror in France as Danton and Robespierre/Walesa and Jaruzelski try to win the soul of France/Poland and bring compassion/political order to the country. A Franco-Polish co-production, the multinational cast results in... more info

• Tremendous and Tragic
  I have a soft spot for Wajda's films but this one beats them all. The knife-edge politics, the ulcer-inducing decision making and the ultimate question... did he simply misjudge the situation or did his arrogance drag him down? What makes this film particularly poignant is that it is contemporary with the events taking place in Poland; Solidarity and martial law. Wajda cleverly casts Polish actors as the coldly focussed Robespierre party and Frenchmen as the over-idealistic and headstrong followers of... more info

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