 |
|
|
| Devil in the Flesh |
 enlarge
|
List Price: $19.95
Buy New: $9.99
You Save: $9.96 (50%)
Buy New/Used/Collectible from $9.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 432
Category: DVD
Director: Marco Bellocchio
Publisher: NoShame Films
Studio: NoShame Films
Manufacturer: NoShame Films
Label: NoShame Films
Format: Color, Original Recording Remastered, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: Italian (Original Language)
Rating: X (Mature Audiences Only)
Media: DVD
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 882853001997
EAN: 0882853001997
ASIN: B000AA4F74
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Theatrical Release Date: May 22, 1987
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
|
|
Similar Items:
| " |
9 songs - Unrated Full Uncut Version |
| " |
Images in a Convent |
| " |
Havoc (Unrated Version) |
| " |
Frivolous Lola |
| " |
Intimacy (Unrated, Widescreen Edition) |
|
|
Editorial Reviews:
Description
One of the most controversial Italians films of the 80s, DEVIL IN THE FLESH takes Raymond Radiguets classic novel and updates it to modern times. Dealing with the legacy of Italys "leaden years" and the aftermath of the social struggles headed by the extreme left wing revolutionary groups, DEVIL IN THE FLESH caused a critical uproar upon its release due to its highly-charged political and sexually frank subject matter. Marushka Detmers (THE MAMBO KINGS) stars as Giulia, a young woman engaged to marry Giacomo, her fiancee whos sitting behind bars because of his political activity. Restless in her appetites and inner turmoil, she meets a young student named Andrea and a passionate affair quickly ensues. But when the day arrives in which she has to face whether she wants to share her life with Giacomo or not, Giulia takes a surprising decision&
Boldly directed by Marco Bellocchio (GOOD MORNING, NIGHT) and featuring superb cinematography by Giuseppe Lanci, DEVIL IN THE FLESH is a powerfully erotic film that deserves to be discovered and appreciated without preconceptions. With its mixing of political and sexual issues, Bellocchio retains the strength and relevancy of the classic text and makes a strong contemporary statement in favour of absolute artistic and political freedom. As controversial as films get, DEVIL IN THE FLESH remains one of the most important Italian films of our time.
NoShame Films is proud to present DEVIL IN THE FLESH for the first time on DVD in its original widescreen aspect ratio, digitally re-mastered from the original negative, uncut and uncensored.
|
|
Customer Reviews:
O.K... Am I the only one who got it? June 16, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a film about the power of erotic love. He's young and naive and doesn't care how hopeless and destructive his affair with this older woman might be. She's older and fully aware of the danger, but not totally at the helm of her own ship; given to bouts of melancholy and psychosis.
Check out the film's last scene: He's there being examined by his professors, and she's there watching him in a growing state of emotion. Watch the expressions on her face (God, what a performance!) and you'll see that she realizes just how much she'll lose by falling in love with this young man but, simulataneously, just how powerless she is to resist the passion, love, lust, self-destruction. I love this film.
 Maruschka Detmers the perfect Borderline Girl March 10, 2006
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
This is an amazing movie, very balanced, all details thought out, as perfect as can be. Marco Bellochio sketches, on the mere pretence of using the story by Radiguet, using the setting of Italy in the years of 'the strategy of tension',a pathology that in those years not even had the name of 'borderline', nor was recognized as such. With long shots, he forces his main actor, the Dutch Maruschka, to the max. She gives an incredable rendering of this type of person. Moreover, she is so beautiful, her laugh is so enticing (and foreboding the worst), that you will never forget her, nor the story. Marco Bellochio is one of the few film directors who have never yielded to commerce. He is a gran maestro, one of the greatest. You can see this movie again and again, it never will deluse you. It has a slow development of tension that will keep you entranced.
 It is good, but I would'nt go overboard on the praise February 25, 2006
12 out of 17 found this review helpful
Its really an Italian version of The Graduate with some twisty sub-plots. Naturally these foreign films will be a bit more sexual, and this one does has one scene with oral action in it(certainly not as graphic as the cross-over film 'the image'). Overall my 3 star rating is perhaps a bit conservative, its good but don't expect to be 'blown' away.
Cool story, shallow ending December 26, 2005
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
I give this movie four stars because Maruschka Detmers is so cute, otherwise it would only rate a three.
The story is plausible; Woman falls for a younger guy while her fiancee is in jail. The sex scenes are hot, and indeed, one is actually explicit.
However the end is lacking. It leaves you with the question: Is that all?
It is worth watching, at least once
A surprisingly touching coming of age film January 27, 1999
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
It's a shame this is not available on video because this is actually one of the better rites of passage movies involving a young student and older woman. Usually the stuff of dreck, this movie has a terrific performance by Maruschka Detmers as a mercurial soon-to-be bride who falls in love(?) with a student. She is a real presence and raises this film to "gentle fable" status. Please come back to availability status soon.
|
|
|
Copyright Runningonkarma.com 2006
|
|
|
