The Tin Drum (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) R
A savage, sweeping epic of society in chaos.
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- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 43 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 15, 2013
- Originally Released: 1979
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | David Bennent, Mario Adorf & Angela Winkler | |
Directed by | Volker Schlöndorff | |
Edited by | Suzanne Baron | |
Screenplay by | Jean-Claude Carrière, Volker Schlöndorff & Franz Seitz | |
Composition by | Maurice Jarre | |
Story by | Gunter Grass | |
Produced by | Franz Seitz & Anatole Dauman | |
Director of Photography: | Igor Luther |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1979 -
Best Foreign Language Film: Not Applicable
Cannes 1979 -
Palme d'Or: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
There are many themes running through The Tin Drum: resistance against an unkind world, the need for acceptance, the horrors of romance and war, and the final idea that growth is inevitable and unfortunately, necessary.
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Scene-Stealers.com
Walks a taut, high rope between doubles and split selves, docu-realism and surrealism, brutality and naïveté, sacred and profane, and history and myth, without falling into the safety net of childish fantasy. (It only falters in its final half-hour.)
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Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
[Bennent] adroitly captures a 3-year-old’s solipsistic conviction that the entire world is his personal playground.
A.V. Club
Rating: 3/5 --
Schlöndorff has a tendency to sketch the rest of the cast as simple grotesques or symbols of decadence that are unconvincingly humanized in the final third.
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Time Out
...This is an entertaining [picture]....Several scenes in TIN DRUM are eye-catchers...
Variety
The Tin Drum is, in fact, almost everything anybody could ask a film to be. It is strikingly original and continuously surprising.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 8/10 --
If ever [the characters in] a film embodied Hannah Arendt's principle of "the banality of evil", it's The Tin Drum...
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PopMatters
Product Description:
Novelist Günter Grass assisted in this brilliant film adaptation of his groundbreaking novel, which depicts the significant events in German history since the turn of the century as seen through the eyes of a bizarre child. In this allegorical film, a three-year-old boy observes the hypocrisy of the adult world and decides to remain a child forever by not growing any taller. His primary efforts to communicate consist of glass-shattering screams and banging on his tin drum. But as this unusual lad matures, and the events leading up to the onslaught of Nazism come to a head, he proves to have a keener perception of life than those around him. Volker Schlondorff's powerful drama deservedly won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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