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DVD ~ Sophia Loren
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  • Actors: Sophia Loren, Julia Roberts, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Kim Basinger
  • Directors: Robert Altman
  • Writers: Robert Altman, Barbara Shulgasser
  • Producers: Angelo Pastore, Bob Weinstein, Brian D. Leitch, Harvey Weinstein, Ian Jessel
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 5 Feb 2001
  • Run Time: 133 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005955I
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 12,939 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Robert Altman's much-anticipated broadside at the world of fashion, Pret A Porter is a disappointment. The film's crazy-quilt Nashville-like narrative structure and ensemble casting (Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Lauren Bacall, Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren) are a thing to behold, but the story's many interlocking pieces lack overall depth and resonating emotion. There is a grand, satiric statement about fashion and society at the end of the film, and there are hints of an aging, nostalgic filmmaker's scepticism about our post-modern world of short-lived attachments and meanings. But watching this film is a long, long uphill climb, with a lot of thin air to endure before arriving at a destination. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars One of the wittiest films ever, 8 Aug 2000
By A Customer
This review is from: Pret A Porter [DVD] [1995] (DVD)
I still don't understand why this movie wasn't a big success at the box office. I have watched it several times on Sky Movies and the last time I watched it, I decided I would by the DVD. I will never get tired of it.

Pret A Porter is one of the wittiest films ever. It gives us a very cheeky view into the banal world of Haute Couture and crazyness that surrounds Paris fashion week. The films strength is in being able to praise the talent and extraordinary beauty that the catwalk can reveal, but at the same time poking fun at the people who take it far too seriously - as if their lives depended on fashion.

The film blends an all star cast (from old and new cinema) together with Cameo appearences by real people from the fashion industry (Jean Paul Gaultier, Gianfranco Ferre, Christian Lacroix).

The many stories in this film, entwine and move forward without complication and make the two hours of the film feel like 5 minutes. Every time I watch it, I wish it would carry on and on.

As far as the transfer to DVD is concerned - the picture and sound quality are excellent. The only irritating quirk, is the fact that the widescreen letterbox occupies the entire top three-quarters of the screen and leaves a thick black strip at the bottom (no strip at the top) - I assume this is for the subtitles. Also, it is low on extra features. This is why I give it a 4 rather than 5 star rating.

Buy IT !

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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Great stars in a great movie, 30 Sep 2000
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This review is from: Pret A Porter (1994) (VHS Tape) (VHS Tape)
Pret a porter, that's the every year fashion show taking place in Paris. Great director Robert Altman set up a cast that's on of a kind. You won't find more well known actors in a movie than in this one. Like in Shrot cuts, there are a lot of different sorylines all related to one topic: the fashion show, including ironic parts and a lot of fun stuff. Go get it, ...
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Satire on the Fashion Industry, 23 Dec 2007
By Jay "The Amazon Reviewer" (Mauritius) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ready to Wear ( Prêt-à-Porter ) [DVD] (DVD)
This is an entertaining spoof built around a Paris fashion week, and was actually filmed during that event. It's a typical Robert Altman film, with multiple story lines, fast cutting from one setup to another, and overlapping soundtracks, which all make it hard to follow at the cinema, and very suitable for rental so it can be replayed. It would take too long even to begin to summarise the subplots and characters, but in addition to a galactically stellar cast; there's a host of guest celebrities, including lots of couturiers; and of course dozens of models on and off the catwalk, in and out of designer clothes, and in the climactic scene without clothes at all.

It is always healthy - both for laughers and laughees - to laugh at powerful people who take themselves too seriously; and by poking fun at the fashion industry and its surrounding media circus, Altman is performing a social service, as well as being a true artist. But I don't find his satire as cruelly biting as some people do. He treats some characters sympathetically or neutrally - eg the designer played by Anouk Aimée and Marcello Mastroianni's mystery figure. And even the extreme characters - eg Richard E Grant's screamingly gay designer or Kim Basinger's gushing TV reporter - are only a little more exaggerated than some real-life equivalents.

The final nude catwalk parade is not only a visually delightful and neat solution to the problem of a designer having lost her collection; but is also a postmodern take on the fairytale of the emperor's new clothes - nowadays, the crooks wouldn't have to pretend they were making clothes for the vain emperor, but would be able to sell him nudity, so long as it had a trendy designer label!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Drivel
The single worst film I've ever seen - and I love fashion films!

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5.0 out of 5 stars "Not only Rock'N'Roll but also Fashion is dead"
Highly anticipated movie was found bit disappointing by the critics and the public. The movie is very sarcastic and wonderfully explores the interim order of the fashion world... Read more
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Be warned, the release of this DVD on the Buena Vista label makes you think you get the whole movie on a 1 sided disc. Wrong. Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars The WORST film I've ever seen...
Oh dear! This is the only film that I have ever felt was so poor that I actually walked out of the cinema halfway through! Read more
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