J'Accuse (2-DVD)
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Run Time: 2 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: September 16, 2008
- Originally Released: 1919
- Label: Flicker Alley
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Romuald Joubé, Séverin-Mars, Maryse Dauvray & Maxime Desjardins | |
Directed by | Abel Gance | |
Screenwriting by | Abel Gance | |
Composition by | Robert Israel |
Entertainment Reviews:
This WWI melodrama is bursting with ideas and energy but void of such concepts as consistency, subtlety, credibility.
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Time Out
The development of the film is characterized by a series of contrasts that no one can interpret. Next to the sublime is the ridiculous and boring. [Full Review in Spanish]
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Cine-Mundial
Rating: 3/4 --
Fertile to a fault.
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Slant Magazine
The cinematic sophistication and visual expressiveness of this 1919 release is astonishing.
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Parallax View
Rating: B --
Technically innovative anti-war World War I melodrama.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It may not be subtle, or realistic filmmaking, but as far as visual poetry goes, it's extraordinary.
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Combustible Celluloid
Description by OLDIES.com:
One of cinema's silent masterpieces by French film pioneer Abel Gance was done in the vein of an anti-war statement. This post-WWI epic dramatizes the tale of two men and one woman whose lives are tragically complicated by the horrors of the world's first global conflict. In French with English subtitles. Silent. 2 DVDs. 1919/b&w/166 min/NR/fullscreen.
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Product Info
- UPC: 617311673993
- Shipping Weight: 0.34/lbs (approx)
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