Despair (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 15, 2011
- Originally Released: 1979
- Label: Olive Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Dirk Bogarde | |
| Performer: | Klaus Löwitsch, Andréa Ferréol & Volker Spengler | |
| Directed by | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | |
| Screenplay by | Tom Stoppard | |
| Written by | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| Director of Photography: | Michael Ballhaus |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 2/5 --
Everything about Despair feels queasily off - the plot, the acting, the dialogue and the fussily over-decorated sets.
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Total Film
Rating: 2/5 --
Certainly Dirk Bogarde's performance, although arch and mannered, is uncomfortably compelling. And the cinematography is undeniably striking. But I can't say I enjoyed it.
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Times (UK)
The resultant film is, he says, faithful to both Stoppard's script and Nabokov's novel; it is certainly not faithful to Fassbinder, who is here seen tripping over one style after another and ending up utterly ditched.
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The Spectator
Of the authorial trifecta that created Despair, director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's voice is the most pronounced.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
[It's] Rainer Werner Fassbinder's most obsessively arty movie and by no means his best. Even so, it is wildly distinctive.
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London Evening Standard
Rating: 1/4 --
Despair does absolutely nothing worth doing, but it does succeed in one area where several hack directors before him failed: bagging a bad performance from Dirk Bogarde.
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Film Comment Magazine
An unlikely meeting of two radically different sensibilities, Fassbinder's 1978 film transforms Nabokov's arch 1934 pastiche of Dostoevsky and dime-store mysteries to his own ends....Oddly affecting.
Film Comment
Product Description:
Set against the backdrop of Nazi Germany, "Despair" is an emotionally rich & stirring account of a factory owner's frightening descent into madness. This is Fassbinder at his finest. Tom Stoppard's screenplay from Vladimir Nabakov's novel.
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