Masterpiece Classic - Birdsong
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 2 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 24, 2012
- Originally Released: 2012
- Label: PBS
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Eddie Redmayne & Clémence Poésy | |
Performer: | Joseph Mawle, Matthew Goode, Rory Keenan, Thomas Turgoose, Richard Madden & Anthony Andrews | |
Directed by | Philip Martin | |
Composition by | Nicholas Hooper | |
Produced by | Lynn Horsford | |
Director of Photography: | Julian Court |
Entertainment Reviews:
71%
TOMATOMETER
Total Count: 7
All told, Birdsong hums a pretty but not particularly memorable tune.
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Variety
Birdsong is remarkable. Unsettling, visceral, a shell-shocked fug of love, loss, then more loss, then the brink of despair, with anything leftthen battered and blown up again.
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Guardian
Birdsong doesn't really have a feel for the loss of control that comes with romantic passion, but it does shamelessness like a Hollywood pro.
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AV Club
Birdsong may have a difficult job in trying to match the strength of Faulks' descriptive prose and his evocation of the degradation of human life, but it comes as close as you could imagine an adaptation might.
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Den of Geek
Birdsong burrows down into the individual stories and dreams that die on these killing fields, and in that sense it is terribly sad.
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New York Daily News
Rating: 4/5 --
The BBC, then, have done something important - they have made an elegiac, lyrical film (that is better than Spielberg's War Horse) with which the next generation can associate the war. It aspires to the sentiments of the war poets.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Birdsong is essentially an epic romance intensified by its backdrop of all-consuming disaster, a Titanic with a much bigger iceberg, but if you love the book this TV incarnation ought to hit the spot.
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The Arts Desk
Product Description:
Set against the backdrop of World War I, this epic love story follows Stephen Wraysford (Eddie Redmayne), an Englishman whose failed love affair with Frenchwoman Isabelle Azaire (Clémence Poésy) continues to haunt him during the war. His only respite comes in the form of friendship with Jack Firebrace (Joseph Mawle), a fellow soldier who helps Stephen endure the hardships of war and come to terms with his feelings for Isabelle.
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Product Info
- UPC: 841887016643
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