Dangerous Beauty

Dangerous Beauty
by Marshall Herskovitz

Dangerous Beauty
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Actor: Catherine McCormack, Fred Ward, Naomi Watts, Oliver Platt, Rufus Sewell
Director: Marshall Herskovitz
Brand: SEWELL,RUFUS
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 112 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-10-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video

Movie Reviews of Dangerous Beauty

Movie Review: Visual beauty.
Summary: 5 Stars

The first time I saw this movie I decided I must go to Venice. Within a year, there I was. I wanted to own it so I could watch it again and again. Great music, costumes, and wonderful performances.

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Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 6-NOV-2001
Media Type: DVD
Although it was unfortunately ignored during its brief theatrical release, this sumptuously seductive production is that rarest of cinematic breeds, the (barely) respectable guilty pleasure. Combining historical fact with hysterical anachronisms of language and mannerism, it's been tailored for maximum contemporary appeal but maintains a lush, romantic feel for its factual 16th-century tale of Venetian love, lust, and political repression. Catherine McCormack (Mel Gibson's ill-fated bride in Braveheart) delivers a star-making performance as the "dangerous beauty" who becomes a skillful courtesan to pursue her forbidden love for a dashing Venetian senator (Rufus Sewell). It's all rather silly in a high-toned fashion, and the film turns dour when the church intervenes with a Scarlet Letter-like papal inquest. But the movie's joyously ribald vitality is utterly irresistible, and the casting of McCormack with Jaqueline Bisset (as her mother and courtesan mentor) is a stroke of pure genius. Merchant-Ivory would've made a smarter film from this material, but it probably wouldn't be nearly as entertaining. --Jeff Shannon

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