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Butterfly's Tongue [DVD] [2000]

DVD ~ Manuel Lozano
4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Manuel Lozano, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Uxía Blanco, Gonzalo Uriarte, Alexis de los Santos
  • Directors: José Luis Cuerda
  • Writers: José Luis Cuerda, Manuel Rivas, Rafael Azcona
  • Producers: José Luis Cuerda, Emiliano Otegui, Fernando Bovaira, Jose Maria Iresteiro
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language Spanish
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Metrodome Distribution
  • DVD Release Date: 20 Nov 2000
  • Run Time: 93 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004YN5L
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,088 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Special Features
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 5
Spanish
Region 2
Dolby Digital 2.0 Spanish
Dolby Digital 2.0
Cast And Crew Filmographies
Cast And Crew List
Directors Notes
Writers Notes
Interactive Menus
English


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Beautifully filmed and lovingly performed.

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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece, 25 Mar 2007
By Mr. David C. Hughes "Davey H" (Mold, north Wales) - See all my reviews
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Being the archetypal English monoglot (OK I know a few words of other languages but I'm not too hot) I almost dropped this from my rental list when I read the review that it had no subtitles (I can only assume that reviewer couldn't find them).

How wrong that would have been as this was a mesmerising film. The characters were played by an exceptional cast who brought together every nuance of that time in rural Spain. The relationships between the characters - especially that of Monch and his teacher Don Gregorio - felt as real as if one was watching real life instead of a movie. Dialogue was excellent and I wish I could understand Spanish and read the original stories that the movie is based on.

All in all a first rate film that one would hate to have missed.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Three elegant though provoking stories, but lacking synchronicity., 28 May 2007
This movie is based on three short stories from the same book, which are all experienced from the view point of an 8 year old boy, Moncho, but which are otherwise scarcely related. The story of the school teacher is touchingly portrayed, and Moncho is central to this story, but the story of the dog and the story of the wolf woman contain events which Moncho watches rather than participates in, and could perhaps have been better told from a closer viewpoint.

The three stories themselves are simple but twisted, like the best of Don Camillo. The film seems understated, at least when observed through the English subtitles, and the adult characters seem deliberately underdeveloped.

The English subtitles are poor, at times dialog is missing, and at times the translation was literally correct but could have better reflected the empathy of the character.

Overall this is a rewarding and thought provoking movie. Although this lacks the beautiful score of Malena, Butterfly's Tongue should appeal to the same audience.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This film is as beautiful as it is sad, 13 Mar 2003
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Loss of innocence can be the greatest loss of all, it robs you of the most beautiful things in your life, and then all you have are the memories and a ghostly taste of that time that left you so long ago. If you like to recapture a taste this is the movie but remember innocence is impermanent, and this film is as beautiful as it is sad, because we see through the eyes of a boy the loss of innocence of a nation, with all its implications.
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