Begging for DVD - with these stars how can it not be? I have my guestroom dedicated to this film. Promo posters from around the globe - it is my all time favorite film (and Peter Coyote's favorite of his own work as well). Serious star studded cast, Coyote is still a respected, recognized actor even if he lacks the fame warranted by his talent. Greta is at her most exquisite as is Cardinale. Jamie Lee Curtis' brief appearance as short as her ponytail in the film is refreshing as she plays the jilted yet committed wife. Peter Riegert and the late John Berry, both character actors you know you've seen before (if you haven't seen Animal House, of course), make it simply shameful that this isn't on DVD.
I was lucky enough to score a French promotional DVD - not a bootleg but a real DVD including a long interview (in French) with Kurys and tons of other extras, unsubtitled of course - and I'd love to know what she said in that interview!
To those with the authority: The DVD is already made! It just needs subtitles then printing and distribution. I'll let you borrow mine if the powers-that-be no longer have the disc.
So fans, hunt for it since some DVDs do exist and it was worth buying a region-free DVD player just for one film. But really, the DVD should be here on Amazon, for the US, so the sheer beauty of this film can be shared with the rest of us.
The film alone is exquisite to watch - the soundtrack by Georges Delerue is deeply moving on its own ... but it's the no-so-well-kept-secret of it being director Kurys' semi-autobiographical experience as an actress in a bit part of a Fellini film makes it all the more engaging.
Plus, some of us lived this sort of romance in our younger days. One more reason I hold it so close to my heart.
Please ... please ,,, we want this on DVD Anybody out there?
Can we please get this on DVD?
Please!
Tries to be what it's not I rented this movie while on my Greta Scacchi binge and it fared poorly compared to others like The Coca-Cola Kid and White Mischief (released the same year). Peter Coyote tries to be dark and brooding as an American actor shooting a docu-drama on location in Italy. Greta Scacchi is the young beauty who lands the leading lady role. Coyote is smitten by her and they continue their on-screen passion away from the cameras. Jamie Lee Curtis is miscast as Coyote's wife who flies in to check up on him. She figures out he is having an affair but is helpless to do anything about it. Obviously, heartache ensues. I kept on getting the feeling while watching this movie that it was trying really hard to be European art house, but coming off flat. Perhaps if it was in another language...? I did enjoy seeing the still beautiful Claudia Cardinale as Scacchi's mother.
Pretends to be what it's not I rented this movie while on my Greta Scacchi binge and it fared poorly compared to others like The Coca-Cola Kid and White Mischief (released the same year). Peter Coyote tries to be dark and brooding as an American actor shooting a docu-drama on location in Italy. Greta Scacchi is the young beauty who lands the leading lady role. Coyote is smitten by her and they continue their on-screen passion away from the cameras. Jamie Lee Curtis is miscast as Coyote's wife who flies in to check up on him. She figures out he is having an affair but is helpless to do anything about it. Obviously, heartache ensues. I kept on getting the feeling while watching this movie that it was trying really hard to be European art house, but coming off flat. Perhaps if it was in another language...? I did enjoy seeing the still beautiful Claudia Cardinale as Scacchi's mother.
A Real Sleeper This is one of my all time favorite films.
Peter Coyote is excellent as the free-spririted, intense actor who seems incapable of handling his everyday affairs. Greta Scacchi has never been more beautiful. Peter Riegert also shines as Peter Coyotes' reality-grounding partner.
Coyote's character uses acting to escape his unfulfilling marriage to his unaccepting wife (played by Jamie Lee Curtis).
In a display of art imitating life, the film uses techniques similiar to the film "The Stuntman" to blend reality with fantasy.
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