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Aria (1987) 5.6
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (... See full summary » |
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Cast
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King Zog (segment "Un ballo in maschera")
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Stephanie Lane | ... |
Baroness (segment "Un ballo in maschera")
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Roy Hyatt | ... |
Chauffeur (segment "Un ballo in maschera")
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Sevilla Delofski | ... |
Maid (segment "Un ballo in maschera")
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Ruth Halliday | ... |
Companion (segment "Un ballo in maschera")
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Arthur Cox | ... |
Major (segment "Un ballo in maschera")
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Dennis Holmes | ... |
Colonel (segment "Un ballo in maschera")
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Paul Brightwell | ... |
Assassin (segment "Un ballo in maschera")
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Frank Baker | ... |
Assassin (segment "Un ballo in maschera")
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Chris Hunter | ... |
Assassin (segment "Un ballo in maschera")
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Nicola Swain | ... |
Marie (segment "La virgine degli angeli")
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Jackson Kyle | ... |
Travis (segment "La virgine degli angeli")
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Marianne McLoughlin | ... |
Kate (segment "La virgine degli angeli")
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Marion Peterson | ... |
Les Jeunes Filles (segment "Armide")
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Valérie Allain | ... |
Les Jeunes Filles (segment "Armide")
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Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner), and is an interpretation of the particular aria. Written by Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
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Country:
UKRelease Date:
July 1988 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Ária See more »Box Office
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$1,028,679 (USA)Company Credits
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Les Jeunes Filles: O how I'd love to hate him.
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from "Les Boréades (Acte 4, Scène I, II)"
Music by Jean-Philippe Rameau
Libretto by Louis de Cahusac (uncredited)
Performed by Jean-Philippe Lafont (uncredited) Philip Langridge with Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists
Conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
segment "Les Boreades"
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Federico Fellini was attached to this project in the very beginning. He worked with producer Don Boyd in Rome and only dropped out because he was ill--he was making his much delayed Fellini's Intervista. Like everybody else who saw "Aria", he loved various sections of the movie, particularly those of Franc Roddam and Julian Temple. See more »Quotes
Les Jeunes Filles: [Armide segment] He looks like he's made for love. He hasn't found my eyes charming enough. He hasn't found my eyes charming enough.Les Jeunes Filles: O how I'd love to hate him.
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"Nuit redoutable !... Lieu désolé"from "Les Boréades (Acte 4, Scène I, II)"
Music by Jean-Philippe Rameau
Libretto by Louis de Cahusac (uncredited)
Performed by Jean-Philippe Lafont (uncredited) Philip Langridge with Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists
Conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
segment "Les Boreades"
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If you like Opera, all the arias will be familiar. The treatments the ten directors give to one aria each, are totally removed from their original context. Nessun Dorma from Turandot becomes the vision of a girl in a near-fatality - gripping imagery culminates in the final VINCERO! of her survival . . .John Hurt lip-synching Vesti la Giubba from I Pagliacci is perhaps the low-point, but the madly bawdy Robert Altmann scene fails too - the rest is a lavish treat! The tragedy of children dying is captured in gritty black and white to the serene melody of Verdi's La Vergine Dell' Angeli, the remarkable outcome of an assasination attempt at a King's life is done brilliantly to the backing of La Sua Parole from A Masked Ball . . . with totally different ending to the one in the Opera! See this, then view it again; you will be amazed and enriched - if you like Opera, that is. If you do not, and have no desire to, then please: go back to the usual fare - this will have very little to offer you - enjoy your Stallone and van Damme.