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The Affair of the Necklace
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 25, 2002
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Hilary Swank, Simon Baker & Jonathan Pryce | |
Performer: | Adrien Brody, Brian Cox, Joely Richardson, Paul Brooke, Hayden Panettiere, Peter Eyre & Christopher Walken | |
Directed by | Charles Shyer | |
Edited by | David Moritz | |
Screenwriting by | John Sweet | |
Composition by | David Newman | |
Produced by | Redmond Morris, Andrew A. Kosove, Broderick Johnson & Charles Shyer | |
Director of Photography: | Ashley Rowe |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
While director Charles Shyer ... may have succeeded in creating an appropriate environment for all this skulduggery, he does so at the expense of coherent storytelling and drama.
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BBC.com
Rating: 2/4 --
...what really sinks the film is its script...
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Reel Film Reviews
Jeanne is no fun at all.
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L.A. Weekly
Rating: 2/4 --
The storytelling is hopelessly compromised by the movie's decision to sympathize with Jeanne.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Swank's honest mistake is in trying to be worthy of a project that's beneath her.
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Blogcritics.org
Rating: C- --
I felt as if I was at an Yves St. Laurent fashion show and the actors were modeling the latest in 18th-century fashions.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The entire film seems a series of disjointed pieces, a screenful of iron filings waiting in vain for the magnet that will line them up in a unified field.
Boston Globe
Product Description:
This tale of intrigue and corruption is based on a true account of 18th Century French noblewoman Jeanne de la Motte-Valois (played by Oscar-winner Hilary Swank), whose family has been dispossessed of status and title by the king. To restore honor to her name, not to mention reclaim her family estate, Jeanne must have her lineage officially authenticated at the court of Versailles. After several unsuccessful attempts to obtain an audience with Marie Antoinette (Joely Richardson), Jeanne finds an ally in male courtesan Rétaux de la Villette (Simon Baker), who advises her to try and gain influence at court by attracting a wealthy sponsor: Cardinal Rohan (Jonathan Pryce), a ruthless man whose appetite for women is only exceeded by his appetite for power. Aided by Villette, her estranged husband Nicolas (Adrien Brody), and an enigmatic foreign mystic, Count Cagliostro (Christopher Walken), Jeanne becomes embroiled in an elaborate scheme involving the cardinal, the queen, and the theft of a priceless diamond necklace. Director Charles Shyer's opulent costume drama, set against a backdrop of increasing civil unrest in pre-revolutionary France, was filmed in Prague and on location at Versailles.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 126,977
- UPC: 085392129225
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