The Mission (Blu-ray) PG
One will trust in the power of prayer. One will believe in the might of the sword.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 7, 2010
- Originally Released: 1986
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert De Niro & Jeremy Irons | |
Performer: | Liam Neeson, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn, Cherie Lunghi, Chuck Low & Ronald Pickup | |
Directed by | Roland Joffé | |
Edited by | Jim Clark | |
Screenwriting by | Robert Bolt | |
Composition by | Ennio Morricone | |
Director of Photography: | Chris Menges |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1986 -
Best Cinematography: Chris Menges
Cannes 1986 -
Palme d'Or: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
...Earnest in tone, melancholic in mood....If your tear ducts aren't tingling as its credits roll, check your soul...
Total Film
Rating: 3/4 --
A visual masterpiece that feels outdated at the core of its conflict. Fantastic performances and cinematography. [Full review in Spanish].
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Cinelipsis
"The Mission" effectively dramatizes yet another chapter in the ruthless European conquest of the Americas. It'll make you hate the whole of western civilization with every fiber of your being.
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Washington Post
A singularly lumpy sort of movie.
New York Times
...Spectacular scenery and an extraordinary high degree of production values....Director Joffe has come up with some stunning scenes...
Variety
"The Mission" is everything a movie should be -- magnificently produced, epic in scope, serious in theme -- everything, that is, but good.
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Washington Post
Rating: C+ --
Joffe's pseudo-epic about slave trading and missionaries in South America is attractive to look at but distorted and anachronistic.
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Product Description:
A visually stunning epic, THE MISSION recounts the true story of two men--a man of the sword (Robert De Niro) and a man of the cloth (Jeremy Irons)--both Jesuit missionaries who defied the colonial forces of mighty Spain and Portugal to save an Indian tribe from slavery in mid-18th-century South America. Mendoza (De Niro) is a slave trader and colonial imperialist who murdered his own brother (Aidan Quinn) and seeks penance for his sins by becomining a missionary at Father Gabriel's (Irons) mountaintop mission; Gabriel is a devout and idealistic man who extols nonviolence and peaceful interaction with the natives and colonialists. Despite their differences, the two men must unite to save the mission when Spain, Portugal, and the Catholic church begin negotiating their boundaries in the area--negotiations that will affect both the freedom of the natives and the well-being of the Jesuit missionaries who have set up safe havens for them. Director Roland Joffé's sweeping masterpiece is a haunting account of the unjust treatment of the Guarani Indians of South America and the men who fought desperately, in very different ways, to save them. The film features a mezmerizing musical score by Ennio Morricone that weaves a stunning combination of church choirs and native Indian panpipes into the lush images of the Brazilian rainforest.
Keywords:
Adventure
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Indians
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Race Relations
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Epic
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Tragedy
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Recommended
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Period Piece
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Theatrical Release
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- Sales Rank: 42,049
- UPC: 883929147144
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