The Europeans
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 28, 2020
- Originally Released: 1979
- Label: Cohen Media Group
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Lee Remick | |
Performer: | Robin Ellis, Wesley Addy, Tim Woodward & Lisa Eichhorn | |
Directed by | James Ivory | |
Edited by | Humphrey Dixon | |
Screenwriting by | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | |
Composition by | Richard Robbins | |
Cinematography by | Larry Pizer | |
Art Direction by | Jeremiah Rusconi | |
Story by | Henry James | |
Produced by | Ismail Merchant |
Entertainment Reviews:
The Europeans is on all counts a pleasing film, and while students of Henry James' work will most likely not be disappointed in the adaptation, those who have never read a word of the man may obtain a thoroughly respectable view
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Sojourner
Rating: 61/100 --
I found myself hoping that several of the storylines, and the poor acting that accompanied them, would simply disappear.
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Apollo Guide
It's a little turgid compared to [Merchant and Ivory's] later work... But it's quite an interesting film in the overall body of work.
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FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Rating: 3/5 --
This adaptation helped put James Ivory in the public consciousness for these Henry James costume dramas.
Denton Record-Chronicle
With everything so tamped down, the tiniest resemblance of an emotional response can be overwhelming.
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Battleship Pretension
Rating: 7/10 --
There is a certain allure to a movie that plays hard to get. The Europeans expects you to meet it halfway. When you do, you're rewarded with a story that's rich with complicated emotions, despite its self-confident exterior.
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Film Threat
...Remarkably intelligent...
New York Times
Product Description:
Based on the novel by Henry James, THE EUROPEANS takes place in 1840s New England where a cultured but nearly destitute sister and brother, raised in Europe, arrive at the doorstep of their rich but innocently isolated American cousins. Hoping to exchange her sophistication for financial stability, Eugenia (Lee Remick) begins a manipulative wooing of bachelor Robert Acton (Robin Ellis) while her bohemian brother, Felix (Tim Woodward), falls for Gertrude Wentworth (Lisa Eichorn). The puritanical Acton is attracted to Eugenia's artful ways but cannot find it within himself to trust her overt sensuality.
With sumptuous cinematography, director James Ivory subtly articulates the emotions that surface in this Jamesian battle between cosmopolitan mores and stony New England rectitude. Producer Ismail Merchant had difficulty finding financial backing in the United States, and THE EUROPEANS was eventually funded by England's National Film Finance Corporation. However, when it was chosen as the only British entry at the Cannes Film Festival, the British film community disassociated itself from the movie, considering it not to be British enough. Despite this, THE EUROPEANS became a success for Merchant Ivory Productions in Europe as well as America.
With sumptuous cinematography, director James Ivory subtly articulates the emotions that surface in this Jamesian battle between cosmopolitan mores and stony New England rectitude. Producer Ismail Merchant had difficulty finding financial backing in the United States, and THE EUROPEANS was eventually funded by England's National Film Finance Corporation. However, when it was chosen as the only British entry at the Cannes Film Festival, the British film community disassociated itself from the movie, considering it not to be British enough. Despite this, THE EUROPEANS became a success for Merchant Ivory Productions in Europe as well as America.
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- Sales Rank: 74,328
- UPC: 191329135570
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