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57 of 57 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
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 It shows the struggles of the Impressionists as they grew to fame and uses letters and other historical documents to build the 'story'.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!
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 It shows the struggles of the Impressionists as they grew to fame and uses letters and other historical documents to build the 'story'.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!
38 of 38 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
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.
22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
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. Their struggle for recognition is well told, the atmosphere of late Nineteenth-Century France well created.
Two things stand out - the linking of the artists' work in specific scenes with individual well-known paintings, and the way the differing personalities of the artists is revealed. They may have all been called "Impressionists" but they were not a generic group, they were individuals, with their own lives, strengths, and faults.
This is a must-have for - well, for just about anyone interested in art.
Two things stand out - the linking of the artists' work in specific scenes with individual well-known paintings, and the way the differing personalities of the artists is revealed. They may have all been called "Impressionists" but they were not a generic group, they were individuals, with their own lives, strengths, and faults.
This is a must-have for - well, for just about anyone interested in art.
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Birth of impressionism
If you like or can even appreciate artist's such as Degas, Renoir, Manet and Monet. Then you need to watch this. Read more
Published 1 month ago by nuttyprincess5
Intelligent and moving
Beautiful pictures, excellent actors, facts and fictional elements giving a real insight into impressionism and French society and history; total enjoyment as well as interesting... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Thomas F. Møller
Docu-drama, informing and nicely framed
In an interview on Desperate Romantics DVD the director states that he didn't want to film the usual life of a painter with Monet standing in a field saying I want to paint the... Read more
Published 3 months ago by DeeJay
Enjoyable but Limited Overview
Highly enjoyable viewing. This well made docu-drama is a pleasure to watch. While it gives a good overview of the events and artists depicted, some of the central characters of... Read more
Published 4 months ago by planner
Disappointing
From the moment I started watching, it didn't do anything for me. Great scenery, but the scenes are too fragmented, and there was no real tension. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Markus Neacey
well, ...
I have to admit, i really like Richard Armitage. He was the reason why i purchased this item and wanted to watch it. Read more
Published 12 months ago by zuzu
One of my favorite dramas ever.
Some may say that this miniseries was too draggy and slow, but for me, it was a feast for the eyes and so educational. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Felicity
an ok film
Not sure what I expected, love the whole impressionist movement and enjoyed seeing the pictures alongside snippets of the lives of some of the greatest artists of that time.
Published 20 months ago by S. M. Martin
O why the background music...
Nice story with some good and some mediocre acting. But the background music is so annoying that I can only give 3 stars.
Published 21 months ago by Anonymus
Fascinating and beautiful
As someone with no interest in art in general but a fascination with The Impressionists, this was just pure enjoyment. Lovely acting and lovely to look at. Read more
Published 24 months ago by spendthrift
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