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High Season [DVD] [1987] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
 
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High Season [DVD] [1987] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

DVD ~ Jacqueline Bisset
4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, James Fox, Irene Papas, Sebastian Shaw, Kenneth Branagh
  • Directors: Clare Peploe
  • Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: R (Restricted) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: MGM
  • DVD Release Date: 17 Sep 2002
  • Run Time: 94 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000069HZT
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 38,424 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Delightful Greek Postcard, 12 Jan 2003
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This review is from: High Season [VHS] [1987] (VHS Tape)
This film is a funny and wonderful look at life, tourism, and love. Seaside Greece is photographed in all it's splendor and no doubt will have you looking at travel brochures the day after watching this delightful film. A fine cast works magic as they interact in a place where inhibitions fall away like water over a cliff.

Jacqueline Bisset is terrific as the photographer of the coffee table book "The Light of Greece" which isn't selling well enough to keep she and her daughter Chloe (Ruby Baker) afloat. A pot she was given as a gift by long time friend Patrick (James Fox) may help cure all her financial troubles, but then again, it may not. The easy going Patrick has some secrets that are only revealed when Rick (a young Kenneth Branagh) and his sweet and long suffering wife Carol (Lesley Manville) come to this little Greek tourist spot.

This film is filled with humor and joy and has a really special mood of Greek music and sensual beauty. Irene Papas gives a very funny performance as Penelope. She talks of her dead husband as though he were a hero during the war but acually fell off a cliff while dancing! Penelope hates tourists and steals nail polish from all the women who come there. Her hilarious hatred of the tourists brings her into conflict with her son Yani (Paris Tselios) who not only wants to make a buck but wants to put up a statue of "The Unknown Tourist"!

The statue is sculpted by Katherine's estranged husband who she amiably argues with throughout the film. There are some hilarious moments in this film including a scene with Yani's mother Penelope dressed like Pancho Villa as she "raids" the unveiling of the statue. Even the serious moments about spys (yep, that's what I said) are handled with warmth and humor in this very unique film.

This film is easy to watch and makes you want to live life to the fullest. Some of the scenery will take your breath away and Bisset is marvelous. Everyone is for that matter and so is this film. Director Clare Peploe (Rough Magic) has crafted something to be proud of here. This is a little known film I ran across by accident and what a happy accident it was. You need to check this one out. The shots of Bisset and Branagh on a beautiful midnight swim are gorgeous, as is Bisset.

This film really may be "The Light of Greece". It's a joy...

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not a great film but a beautiful backdrop!, 13 Oct 2008
By Iain P. Wishart "iain_wish" (EDINBURGH UK) - See all my reviews
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This isn't the most entertaining film and was clearly shot on a budget! That said if you have ever been to Lindos in Rhodes you'll want to own this as the main backdrop is the village - with the Acropolis, Main Beach and St Pauls's Bay all featured including donkey rides!

I was in Kefalonia when they shot Captain Correli's Mandolin and that film was great to look at - but another 5 out of 10. Visually great but ham acting!

Turn down the volume and try recognise the sites of Lindos from 1986/87 - well worth the financial outlay!
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