Is Paris Burning?

Is Paris Burning?
by Ren? Cl?ment

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Actor: Charles Boyer, George Chakiris, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Leslie Caron
Director: Ren? Cl?ment
Brand: Paramount
Writer: Beate von Molo
Writer: Claude Brul?
Writer: Dominique LaPierre
Writer: Francis Ford Coppola
Writer: Gore Vidal
Writer: Jean Aurenche
Writer: Larry Collins
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 173 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-06-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount

Movie Reviews of Is Paris Burning?

Movie Review: Great movie, lousy DVD
Summary: 4 Stars

The movie is a classic, no doubt about that.

While the film's visual transfer to DVD is fine, even excellent, the audio and subtitles are horrible.

This is one of those unusual films which includes dialogue in both English and French. One wants, for example, to hear Glenn Ford speaking English. But the DVD offers *only* all English or all French, in other words, no original soundtrack.

Compounding the problem, the English subtitles were evidently written by someone who isn't a native speaker of either English or French, and who may not have even been watching the movie. Every other sentence is mistranslated. Times are altered. Names are altered. Odd sentences are added that aren't in the dialogue. It's just bizarre -- I've never seen anything like it.

So four and a half stars for the movie, but only two stars for the DVD transfer.

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Summary of Is Paris Burning?

As the nazi jackboot marches through europe the freedom fighters of paris mount a brave resistance. An insane & desperate hitler sends a top general to determine if the nazis can hold the city. If not paris will be burned. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 03/16/2004 Starring: Jean-paul Belmondo Orson Welles Run time: 172 minutes Rating: Nr

This big-budget, star-studded epic 1966 French film features well-known actors from both Europe and America in the story of the final battles over the liberation of Paris at the end of the Second World War. Is Paris Burning? tells the story from all perspectives, from the Nazis to the French resistance, allowing for star turns and cameos from an illustrious group of actors, including Jean-Paul Belmondo (Breathless), Kirk Douglas (Spartacus), Orson Welles (The Third Man), Leslie Caron, Glenn Ford, Charles Boyer, Anthony Perkins, and many others. As the members of the resistance fight for control of the city, the Nazis order the commander in Paris (Gert Fr?be) to burn the city if the resistance gains the upper hand. Written for the screen by author Gore Vidal and filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, director Ren? Cl?ment's film hearkens back to the star-filled epics of America's heyday while retaining a modern French sensibility. --Robert Lane

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