Sophie and the Rising Sun (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray BD-R Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: February 28, 2017
- Originally Released: 2016
- Label: Monterey Media
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Julianne Nicholson & Takashi Yamaguchi | |
Directed by | Maggie Greenwald |
Entertainment Reviews:
Greenwald and cinematographer Wolfgang Held linger on the idyllic beauty of the salt marsh and trees draped with Spanish moss, using the vivid cerulean of native blue crabs to link her characters.
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Village Voice
The actors are so good that it doesn't even seem awkward when the film gives us a romantic angle between Nicholson's Sophie and the Japanese visitor.
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LRM
Rating: B+ --
A wonderfully intersectional film, featuring love and friendship against the backdrop of WWII and the languid air of the South.
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Mediaversity Reviews
Rating: 3/4 --
Warm, heartfelt but decidedly wan.
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Observer
An eloquent, and both captivating and terrifying story playing out on the eve of the US entry into WW II, the film connects the Jim Crow South, and racism against Japanese Americans. And women bonding together in crisis for better - and often much worse.
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WBAI Radio
Rating: 2/4 --
A WWII forbidden love romance that is unsurprising in the extreme, but made with more care than the material warranted.
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Movie Nation
Maggie Greenwald's first adult-oriented feature since 'Songcatcher' is an affecting, rose-scented study of small-town prejudice and female friendship.
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Variety
Description by OLDIES.com:
Set in the autumn of 1941 in Salty Creek, a fishing village in South Carolina, the film tells the dramatic story of interracial lovers swept up in the tides of history. Sophie is an artist who fishes and sells crabs to the townsfolk; the other, Mr. Ohta, appears in the town badly beaten and under mysterious circumstances, as World War II rages in Europe. Sophie, a native of Salty Creek, quickly becomes transfixed by Mr. Ohta and a friendship born of their mutual love of art blossoms into a delicate and forbidden courtship. As their secret relationship evolves, the war escalates tragically. When Pearl Harbor is bombed, a surge of misguided patriotism, bigotry and violence sweeps through the town, threatening Mr. Ohtas life. Three women, Sophie, the town matriarch and her housekeeper each with her own secret reject law and propriety, risking their lives with their actions. Based on the novel by Augusta Trobaugh This Blu-ray features surround sound, English subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired along with the official Sophie and the Rising Sun trailer.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 98,449
- UPC: 191091375266
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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