Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre
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DVD Cover Information
Artist: Carroll MooreBrand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 30 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Homevision
Movie Reviews of Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre
Movie Review: Excellente
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the most informative and enjoyable art films I've ever seen, after reading and studying Paris culture at the beginning of the 20th Century for years this artistic, cultural and political summary of the time is an excellent way to learn a lot in a fast and enjoyable time. The photography is excellent and enriched with not only old film but with new images of Montmartre kindling the desire to return to the sunshine filled streets of the Butte. The stories of Lautrec models for his posters is revealing and enriches the posters we have all come to love. The film's music score is very stimulating with a variety of original cabaret singers and songs. Hopefully the reader can find a rental or library copy of the DVD if unable to afford or locate the DVD. You will want to watch it several times to absorbed all the images present to the viewer. Enjoy and let others too.
Summary of Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864?1901) is renowned for his paintings and posters inspired by the rowdy, edgy spectacle of entertainment in late nineteenth?century Paris. He found his subjects in the dance halls, cabarets, circuses, and brothels of the Montmartre neighborhood, where middle-class visitors came for a whiff of excitement laced with danger. His images of performers at the Moulin Rouge, Chat Noir, and other fashionable nightspots transformed the poets, singers, and dancers of Montmartre ? including Aristide Bruant, Jane Avril, and Yvette Guilbert ? into celebrities. This film traces the relationship between the aristocratic painter and the avant-garde culture of Montmartre, using works of art by Lautrec and his colleagues, rare archival footage and sound recordings, period photographs, and interviews with contemporary scholars.