Frantic
by Roman Polanski
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Actor: Betty Buckley, Djiby Soumare, Dominique Virton, Emmanuelle Seigner, Harrison FordDirector: Roman Polanski
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Witold Sobocinski
Writer: Roman Polanski
Producer: Thom Mount
Producer: Tim Hampton
Writer: G?rard Brach
Writer: Jeff Gross
Writer: Robert Towne
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: Pan & Scan, 1.33:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Frantic
Movie Review: The 2004 transfer still lousy
Summary: 1 Stars
If you hope, as I did, that the 2001 and 2003 reviews that warn against the lousy transfer of this move do not apply to the 2004 edition, this is unfortunately not the case. The 2004 transfer looks like a bootleg made from a VHS tape. Why is Warner treating this movie so crappily? It is an excellent film and deserves a DVD release that does it justice.
Summary of Frantic
An american heart surgeon is thrust into the adventure of a lifetime when he arrives in paris for a convention and his wife inexplicably vanishes. His search for her leads him into the urban underworld and forges an alliance with a beautiful woman who holds the key to the mystery. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 12/07/2004 Starring: Harrison Ford Emmanuelle Seigner Run time: 120 minutes Rating: R Director: Roman PolanskiLiving in exile in Paris after eluding a controversial charge of statutory rape in America, director Roman Polanski seemed professionally adrift during the 1980s, making only one film (the ill-fated Pirates) between 1979 and 1988. Then Polanski found inspiration--and a major star in Harrison Ford--to make Frantic, a thriller that played directly into Polanski's gift for creating an atmosphere of mystery, dread, escalating suspense, and uncertain fate. Set in Paris (Polanski couldn't go to Hollywood, so Hollywood came to him), the story begins when an American heart surgeon (Ford) arrives in the City of Lights with his wife (Betty Buckley) for a medical convention. They check into a posh hotel, and in a brilliantly directed scene, Ford takes a shower and emerges to find that his wife has vanished. This mysterious disappearance--and a confusion between two identical pieces of luggage--leads Ford into the Paris underground and a plot that grows increasingly dangerous as he approaches the truth of his wife's disappearance. The plot gets too complicated, and the pace drops off in the cluttered second half, but in Polanski's capable hands the film is blessed with moments of heightened suspense in the tradition of classic thrillers. --Jeff Shannon
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