Insignificance (Blu-ray, Criterion Collection) R
A comedy about life, death, sex, and the Universe... relatively speaking.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 14, 2011
- Originally Released: 1985
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tony Curtis | |
Performer: | Gary Busey, Theresa Russell & Michael Emil | |
Directed by | Nicolas Roeg |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5.8 --
None of its characters have any sort of inner life and their motivations are simply to fulfill the goals of the screenplay.
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Paste Magazine
Rating: B- --
It is a noble idea for a film to satire some of the best known American pop culture heroes of the 1950s.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 4/5 --
Fascinating, flawed Roeg film.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Reflects Roeg's views of the absurdity of American history and our compulsion to destroy beauty. [Blu-ray]
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Groucho Reviews
... it's calculated misdirection with little in the way of greater purpose.
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Cinema Scope
...[The film] rolls along gathering momentum like some enigmatic ball...it explodes in a shower of illumination...
Sight and Sound
INSIGNIFICANCE, an intelligent, satiric comedy, brings together four '50s icons on a single sweltering night in Manhattan, with haunting reverberations...
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
This unique film takes place in 1953, and explores such themes as fame and emotional detachment. The four disparate main characters -- The Professor, The Actress, The Senator, and The Ballplayer, are thinly-veiled versions of Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joseph McCarthy and Joe DiMaggio, respectively. When they all wind up in the same hotel room one night, the quartets' interactions with one another reveal fascinating aspects of their personalities, including vulnerability, naivete and guilt. But sadly, one trait is common to all four characters: despair.