The Libertine
by Laurence Dunmore
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Actor: Francesca Annis, John Malkovich, Johnny Depp, Paul Ritter, Stanley TownsendDirector: Laurence Dunmore
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-07-04
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Weinstein Company
DVD Reviews of The Libertine
DVD Review: Impressive piece of bawdy tragedy
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a very entertaining film with great acting. The story is slightly OTT but has some great moments in it, especially between Johnny Depp (a great performance from him) and either John Malkovitch or Samantha Morton, who are also outstanding.
This story draws you in & in places repels, but it's very entertaining and pretty dark. Recommended.
DVD Review: No, I don't like you.
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a beautiful, depressing miasma of a movie, with gorgeous sets and emotionally wrenching performances. Between the literal and metaphorical mud, the venereal rotting away of body and society, and the absolute amorality of the earl of Rochester, the film offers an unflinching look at corruption. There's something gleeful and wonderful in it under all the decay. My only point is that you should know this about the movie when you sit down to watch it. I guess it's a tribute to Depp's talent as an actor that I can watch his work and enjoy it when he plays characters I can only like in spite of themselves.DVD Review: Depp best performance
Summary: 5 Stars
Although this movie is only for adults, it is Johnny Depp's best acting role. His performance shows his range in acting from comedy to drama. He has absorbed the person of John Wilmot and when the movie is over you feel as if you knew the man. A great work overlooked for an Oscar and one day will be a must have for all Depp collections and admirers. DVD Review: For once the deleted scenes were needed!
Summary: 4 Stars
Usually the deleted scenes featured on DVD show just why they were deleted. But in this case, it would have made the movie make sense. I have the feeling that the director had spent so much money creating the scenery and outlandish props for the scandalous play that he chose to cut the WRONG corners. He or the editors damaged a film that could have been outstanding. For example, you wouldn't even know that Wilmot had children unless you watched the outtakes. And you wouldn't know why he was consumed with guilt or what possibly contributed to his liscentiousness. And, not knowing these things, as you watch it you just don't understand the sudden...oh, well, I don't want to spoil the gruesome ending. This is one movie that needs to be re-cut. Because as bleak as it is, there are wonderful, thought provoking performances that stayed with me long after it was finally over.DVD Review: A Grotesque Tour de Force
Summary: 2 Stars
Johnny Depp delivers a mesmerizing performance as the debauched John Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester in 17th-century England - easily the best thing about this unfortunate, unpleasant adaptation of Stephen Jeffrey's play. Director Laurence Dunmore's irritating music-video technique doesn't help. Standout portrayals by Samantha Morton and John Malkovich prove the ideal match for Depp's inventiveness during this two-hour wallow in the mire.
Description of The Libertine
Johnny Depp stars as the decadent John Wilmot the second Earl of Rochester. The film follows the Earl s adventures in London from his passionate romance with a young actress to the writing of a scurrilous play which blisteringly and bawdily lampoons the very monarch who commissioned it Charles II leading to the Earl s banishment and eventual downfall.System Requirements:Running Time: 114 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?R UPC:?796019794060 Manufacturer No:?79406The beautifully sculpted face of Johnny Depp fits right in with this masterpiece of design. The Libertine--filmed in a grainy, color-muted chiaroscuro--captures the lush costumes, extravagant decor, and remarkable filth of Restoration England. John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester (Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ed Wood), warns the audience at the very beginning of the film that they will not like him. From there, he treats his wife cruelly, drinks to relentless excess, abuses his friendships, and generally wallows in dissipation, much to the dismay of King Charles II (John Malkovich, Dangerous Liaisons), who hopes that Rochester will write a play glorifying his reign. But Rochester finds his true inspiration (and the movie comes to life) when he sees a young actress named Lizzie Barry (Samantha Morton, Minority Report, Morvern Callar). Rochester sets out to make her the greatest actress of their time--and she, with some reluctance, submits to his teaching. The weakness of The Libertine is not that Rochester is unlikable; it's that he doesn't want to do anything. Barry galvanizes the movie because she burns with ambition, but Rochester's only apparent aim in life is an agonizingly slow self-destruction. Still, The Libertine has lurid Saturnalian visions, Morton is superb, Malkovich gives a typically insidious turn, and Depp, as always, finds moments of sad poetry in the bitterest of speeches. --Bret Fetzer
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