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  • Actors: Julian Glover, Richard Armitage, Amanda Root
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Acorn Media
  • DVD Release Date: 4 Sep 2006
  • Run Time: 170 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000GW8TF0
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4,714 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Popular BBC drama portraying the struggle of the Impressionist school of art's struggle against the established order of the 19th century art world.

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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully photographed, 15 Dec 2006
By P. Smith (Vienna) - See all my reviews
Painting is often a slow, silent and private activity so a film essentially about painters is unlikely to be full of action and indeed this isn't. It concentrates instead in its 3 one-hour episodes (told mostly in flashback by an aged Monet) on the relationships and interaction between Monet, Renoir, Degas, Bazille, Manet and Cézanne.

It's beautifully photographed, just beautifully. With the utmost care the director manages, not only to capture the intense colour of the scenes and scenery but also through great technical skill, and patient staging of the shot, to pass the viewer from what the painter is seeing in real life to a finished work that has come down to us. One moment you are shown the dramatic crashing of waves against the cliffs at Etretat and in the next, the final painting from precisely the same perspective. Very clever stuff and much appreciated by this viewer.

While the relationships of the painters above are explored, at times in some detail, for me a very big question remains; where on earth is Pissarro? Credited by many as "The Father of Impressionism", instrumental not only in inventing the impressionist style of painting (though the word comes from an insulting remark made by a critic, Louis Leroy on seeing Monet's "Impression, Sunrise") but also in getting his colleagues' works exhibited and acting as mentor/patriarch to the group especially Cézanne, alongside whom he painted many times. There must be a good reason he was completely and strangely left out (a copyright problem with the Pissarro estate perhaps?) but no reason is given in the film unless I missed it. I wish too a little more had been done on the life of Renoir. However these are only quibbles. This is a colourful and very rewarding mini-series.

(Just a word of warning about the rating of 4 above. This is how I personally found the film; I love art history and enjoyed very much the clever bringing to life of these names from the Impressionist world. Perhaps a more neutral viewer understandably might find the whole thing a little bit slow and uneventful.)
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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A cracker!, 20 Sep 2006
By R. Hacking "Gawain the Cat" (UK) - See all my reviews
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A BBC costume drama at its absolute best especially if you have an interest in Art!

Centring on men in a costume drama is unusual but this is based around the lives of the 'Impressionist Painters' Monet, Manet, Renoir, Bazille, Cezanne, Degas etc. it is therefore set in France in the late 1880's and continues well into the 20th Century. It shows the struggles of the Impressionists as they grew to fame and uses letters and other historical documents to build the 'story'. The actors are highly competent and believable - a merry bunch of generally good looking men who you can tell became a 'family'.

What is absolutely stunning, innovative, and very clever about this DVD is the way that the story stops from time to time when the artists are painting a scene, the director then superimposes over the 'view' the original painting. The amount of location research that must have gone into the making of this DVD blows my mind.

An excellent DVD that would make a great present. I would highly recommend it to anyone with even the slightest interest in impressionist art - it is truly inspirational!
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars beautifully filmed, 14 Sep 2006
By Nicola J. Harris "njh" (London) - See all my reviews
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This dramatisation of the life of the Impressionists, as told through the eyes of an aged Monet, is truly beuatiful. It tells of Manet, Degas, Renoir and Monet, and later Cezanne, meeting and wanting to draw what they saw in nature. Filmed to show the viewer the beauty of the world around us all and why these young men felt so compelled to paint it in this way, it has you looking up the opening times of The National Gallery so as you can get to see the paintings for yourself. You are drawn into their world by the sensitive way in which the painters are depicted. It is amazing that it has taken so long to put this story on to our screens. Beautiful.
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Three one-hour episodes tell the story of the Impressionists, mainly in the form of flash-backs as an ageing Monet gives an interview to a young journalist. Read more
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