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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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Ten great directors. One unforgettable film. The most sensual experience you'll ever have in a movie theater. See more »Parents Guide:
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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 3, Scène III)"
Music by Jean-Philippe Rameau
Libretto by Louis de Cahusac (uncredited)
Performed by John Aler (uncredited) (credited Jennifer Smith, Anne-Marie Rodde, but thier part were not used in this) 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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"Jouissons, jouissons ! Jouissons de nos beaux ans"from "Les Boréades (Acte 3, Scène III)"
Music by Jean-Philippe Rameau
Libretto by Louis de Cahusac (uncredited)
Performed by John Aler (uncredited) (credited Jennifer Smith, Anne-Marie Rodde, but thier part were not used in this) with Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists
Conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
segment "Les Boreades"
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Guess a few upscale film directors were sitting around sipping their absinthe, grappa, aramangac or jungle juice some night in the 80's during the Cannes or other film festival and one said "Hey, guys let's do a movie where each of us creates a segment around a world class aria." Welllll...it kind of sort of worked. Clearly someone was smart enough to select some of the best recordings of the arias chosen, for example Bjoreling's Nessun Dorma, so if you were blind and lying on the floor just listening to the DVD you got more than your money's worth. Not every director succeeded but more did than not and the flick seems to improve with each viewing over the years. My favorite is the eerily beautiful love duet from Die Todt Statd; okay a young naked Elizabeth Hurley is eye candy but her husband singing to her, his wife's ghost, is incredibly beautiful with the love music second only to Otello and Desdemona's "Gia nella Notte Densa" in all the operatic repertoire. Could the flick been better, sure, what couldn't not have been but it's well worth a view especially of you're in a hyper-romantic mood.