Tristan and Isolde (Widescreen Edition)

Tristan and Isolde (Widescreen Edition)
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Actor: David O'Hara, James Franco, Mark Strong, Rufus Sewell, Sophia Myles
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Producer: Anne Lai
Producer: Christian Frohn
Producer: David Minkowski
Producer: Elie Samaha
Producer: Frank H?bner
Producer: Giannina Facio
Writer: Dean Georgaris
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-04-25
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox

DVD Reviews of Tristan and Isolde (Widescreen Edition)

DVD Review: Great film, great love story
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie was fantastic. James Franco does an amazing job, and the movie is very well-done.

DVD Review: A love story, but so much more.
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie is for those of us who still enjoy a great love story. For those of us who know love, have experienced it and understand it, even if we've lost it. However, this movie is so much more than a love story, with the history of war between Ireland and England. Its a complete package, beautifully done.

DVD Review: An ageless tale of courtly love
Summary: 5 Stars

Tristan and Isolde is a very old medieval myth which was the most famous story of courtly love in Europe up until William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. Some argue that it served as inspiration for the love-triangle between King Arthur / Guinevere and Sir Lancelot. Those who have read Sir Thomas Mallory's Le Morte D'Arthur: The Winchester Manuscript (Oxford World's Classics) will notice that an incarnation of the myth exists within the story in the guise of Sir Tristram & Lady Isuelt. These days, the most famous version of the story is Wagner's opera Wagner - Tristan und Isolde.

In spite of being such an ancient tale, and one that has been re-told so many times (in many different ways), like all good stories, it is one that already has & always will endure the test of time. Like all classic tragedies, it is a tale of two people who are SO close to achieving happiness that they can almost taste it, and yet this happiness is forever denied them (for one reason or another). It is a story that is heart-wrenching to watch precisely because it is so realistic. Many of us have had the burden of bad luck which has prohibited us from reaching the phase of "happily ever after."

James Franco is a fine young up & coming actor who has a very strong & precocious screen presence for his age. Sophia Myles is lovely and she portrays the damsel who is a victim of circumstance nicely. Rufus Sewell is terrific as a kind fellow who is a victim of circumstances of which he is unaware.

If you ever wanted to expound your horizons on famous myths from a long while back, this is a perfect place to start. Our ancestors, just as we today, knew how to love & they also knew what it was to have the things we love the most be forever just out of our reach.

DVD Review: Deceptive Advertising by Amazon
Summary: 1 Stars

I ordered this DVD (Tristan + Isolde, 20th Century Fox) fully expecting it to be a DVD production of the Wagner opera. There was nothing I saw on Amazon.COM to indicate it was just a movie. Needless to say I am very disappointed. I believed I was searching under "Opera" and "Wagner", so I believed that the "Tristan + Isolde" I ordered was indeed the opera.
SO, I am accusing Amazon of false and disceptive advertising. SHAME ON YOU, Amazon!
Had I been a more astute opera fan, I guess I should have realized that James Franco and Sophia Myles are not Wagnerian opera singers. My failing.

DVD Review: Beautifully shot and romantic
Summary: 3 Stars

I love watching movies like this. Period romances are great and tragedies are even better. Though I didn't love Tristan and Isolde, I did like it alot. The look of the film is just stunning. Muted colors and filtered light really enhance the feel of the film and make the dark ages appealing.

The plot, however is a bit choppy and empty at times. The trailer to the film is actually a bit decieving. When viewing it, I thought the film would go in an entirely different direction. I was actually pleasantly surprised. Whom I initially perceived to be the 'bad guy'-wasn't and it was a nice change of pace.

What really makes this film work is the wonderful acting. Sophia Myles as the lovely Isolde is genuine and really fits the role. But it is James Franco that really elevates this film. His tender, tragic portrayal as the brave Tristan really won me over. He does tortured very, very well. He looks the part, he acts the part and even though his English accent is not up to par, I barely even noticed it because he is just an engrossing presence on screen. You can just tell that his heart is breaking when the woman he loves must marry another.

After viewing, I did some research on the actual legend and found that it varies from different sources. Still, I feel that the tragedy part of the myth stayed intact, no matter what version it derived from. I found the film's intrepretation to be memorable and perfectly adequate for this day and age.

Description of Tristan and Isolde (Widescreen Edition)

From executive producer Ridley Scott (Gladiator) comes a sweeping, action-packed saga of epic battles, political intrigue and forbidden passion, set in a time when the lines between heroism and savagery were etched in fire and carved out with broadswords. After the fall of Rome, visionary warlord Marke (Rufus Sewell) seeks to unite the squabbling English tribes to form one strong nationand defeat brutal Irish King Donnchadh. But when Lord Marke?s greatest and most loyal knight, Tristan (James Franco), falls in love with Isolde (Sophia Myles), a beautiful Irish woman, it threatens to destroy the fragile truce and ignite a war. In the spirit of Braveheart and A Knight?s Tale, TRISTAN+ ISOLDE is a rousing tale of trust and treachery that will leave you breathless!

Luscious cinematography and even more luscious stars make Tristan & Isolde a feast for the eyes. Adapted from the medieval love story, the movie begins with with young Tristan (played as a child by Thomas Sangster, Love Actually) as he sees his parents killed by the tyrannical Irish, who ruled over a fractured Britain after the Roman occupation. Taken in by Marke (Rufus Sewell, Dark City), who rules one of the British tribes, Tristan (James Franco, Spider-Man) grows up to be a young prince and a mighty warrior--and when he's believed slain in battle, he's given a royal funeral, which sends him out sea in a burning boat. But the fire goes out and Tristan washes ashore on Ireland, where Isolde (Sophia Myles, Art School Confidential), the daughter of the Irish king, nurses him back to health. Being a lovely pair of young folk bursting with hormones, they fall madly in love... and set in motion a tragic tale that's lasted for centuries in many variations. Some reviewers have criticized Tristan & Isolde for deviating from the most common classical version, but the movie's storyline--though certainly altered to appeal to modern audiences--is fairly strong. Myles and especially Sewell turn in strong performances; Franco, however, though surprisingly persuasive as a warrior, never burns as a lover. Nonetheless, the loving shots of Franco's muscular physique will make this a must-have for his fans. --Bret Fetzer

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