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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 19, 2010
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Kino Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Featured: | Meryl Streep, Tony Kushner & Kevin Kline | |
| Directed by | John Walter | |
| Composition by | Robert Miller | |
| Subject: | Bertolt Brecht | |
| Produced by | Nina Santisi |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 3/4 --
Theater of War, Walter's invigorating film, asserts the value of Brecht -- and the power of art -- for our troubled times.
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Boston Globe
The trauma of the past is expressed in the woundedness of the present and through this expression finds a type of sanctuary.
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Another Gaze
As a onetime dramaturg and Brechtian, I enjoyed the chin-wags and the glimpses of Streep in rehearsal -- especially her quivering admission that she can't bear the thought of anyone seeing her process.
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New York Magazine/Vulture
Rating: 2/4 --
Neither Meryl Streep's as-yet-unpolished performance nor the entire construction of this particular production of Bertolt Brecht's celebrated play are done much favor by this doc's unedifying attempt to shoot the moon.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: 2.5/4 --
All of this makes an interesting, if not gripping, film about the play, the playwright and the lead-up work to a stage production. It also leaves me wanting a great deal more.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 3/4 --
For theater lovers in general, this documentary -- a look at a high-powered production of a modern classic and a chance to watch Meryl Streep build a character -- is intriguing and educational. For partisans of Bertolt Brecht, it's mandatory.
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San Francisco Chronicle
In chronicling the production, the film demonstrates and expands upon the artistic process of getting inside a specific historical mindset....The mix of hybrid approach and vivid detail bring Brecht into sharp focus.
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Product Description:
With this documentary, Meryl Streep for the first time allowed cameras to record her preparation for a role. The occasion was her lead stage performance in Bertolt Brecht's MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN. And while the film offers a plenitude of insights into the actress's craft, its focus narrows to the play itself--whose themes of warfare and violence have both parallels to life in 2006 and Brecht's tortured history in America.
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- UPC: 718122566174
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