Francesco
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Actor: Andr?a Ferr?ol, Helena Bonham Carter, Mario Adorf, Paolo Bonacelli, Peter BerlingCinematographer: Ennio Guarnieri
Cinematographer: Giuseppe Lanci
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Legacy Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Francesco
DVD Review: Do not pay attention to previous review.
Summary: 4 Stars
Do not pay attention to the previous review. Although it does not especifically says, I am sure it is the film by Liliana Cavani, one of the best Italian film directors ever. There is a new DVD version available here.DVD Review: One of the worst films I have ever seen
Summary: 1 Stars
The only reason I put one star is that Amazon doesn't have fewer. This movie is so bad that it's laughable. It has very little resemblance to the life of St. Francis, Catholicism, or Italian history. It opens with followers of history's most popular saint meeting in the wilderness to discuss his life. He is supposed to be dead, but considering that the real St. Francis lived to be an old man, all these original followers of his ought to have been old too. Instead, they are barely out of their teens -- including St. Clare, who is with them for some reason. Of course she and the Poor Clares were cloistered Sisters, but here she is the only female follower of St. Francis and hangs around with the guys, even dressing like them.
So much for history -- how about story? Let's just say that if the real St. Francis was this nutty, they'd have locked him up. Mickey Roarke as St. Francis??? This is a mess of a movie, but it is at least good for a laugh. Take, for instance, the popular medieval Italian game of "throw lunch at a leper." Ha ha! Throughout the film Francis is called Francesco and Clare is called Chiara. While this might be simply to give them their Italian nicknames, it may also be because the creators were too ashamed to use their real names.
The best part is that the cover of my edition, in addition to photos of Roarke and Carter, has a photo of a priest in the lower right corner -- a 20th century priest, with glasses!
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