The Europeans (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: April 28, 2020
- Originally Released: 1979
- Label: Cohen Media Group
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Lee Remick | |
Performer: | Robin Ellis, Wesley Addy, Tim Woodward & Lisa Eichhorn | |
Directed by | James Ivory | |
Edited by | Humphrey Dixon | |
Screenwriting by | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | |
Composition by | Richard Robbins | |
Cinematography by | Larry Pizer | |
Art Direction by | Jeremiah Rusconi | |
Story by | Henry James | |
Produced by | Ismail Merchant |
Entertainment Reviews:
The achievement of Mr. Ivory and Mrs. Jhabvala is their preservation of so much James, so purely, in what's thought to be a hostile medium.
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New York Times
The Europeans is on all counts a pleasing film, and while students of Henry James' work will most likely not be disappointed in the adaptation, those who have never read a word of the man may obtain a thoroughly respectable view
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Sojourner
But what's attractive about revisiting "The Europeans" now is how it's more indie-flavored, its pleasurable finery and delicate ironies... befitting a novel whose lightness of tone James himself recognized when he subtitled it "A Sketch.
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Los Angeles Times
The first of three Henry James adaptations produced by the Merchant Ivory team, this is an entrancing entry not just in their partnership but in the career of Ivory himself.
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The CriterionCast
Rating: 3/5 --
Beautifully photographed by Larry Pizer, The Europeans conveys an unstated death pallor which overshadows its otherwise jaunty proceedings.
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IONCINEMA.com
Rating: 61/100 --
I found myself hoping that several of the storylines, and the poor acting that accompanied them, would simply disappear.
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Apollo Guide
Rating: 2.5/4 --
The Europeans is finally just all surface: illustrations for the novel.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
Based on the novel by Henry James, THE EUROPEANS takes place in 1840s New England where a cultured but nearly destitute sister and brother, raised in Europe, arrive at the doorstep of their rich but innocently isolated American cousins. Hoping to exchange her sophistication for financial stability, Eugenia (Lee Remick) begins a manipulative wooing of bachelor Robert Acton (Robin Ellis) while her bohemian brother, Felix (Tim Woodward), falls for Gertrude Wentworth (Lisa Eichorn). The puritanical Acton is attracted to Eugenia's artful ways but cannot find it within himself to trust her overt sensuality.
With sumptuous cinematography, director James Ivory subtly articulates the emotions that surface in this Jamesian battle between cosmopolitan mores and stony New England rectitude. Producer Ismail Merchant had difficulty finding financial backing in the United States, and THE EUROPEANS was eventually funded by England's National Film Finance Corporation. However, when it was chosen as the only British entry at the Cannes Film Festival, the British film community disassociated itself from the movie, considering it not to be British enough. Despite this, THE EUROPEANS became a success for Merchant Ivory Productions in Europe as well as America.
With sumptuous cinematography, director James Ivory subtly articulates the emotions that surface in this Jamesian battle between cosmopolitan mores and stony New England rectitude. Producer Ismail Merchant had difficulty finding financial backing in the United States, and THE EUROPEANS was eventually funded by England's National Film Finance Corporation. However, when it was chosen as the only British entry at the Cannes Film Festival, the British film community disassociated itself from the movie, considering it not to be British enough. Despite this, THE EUROPEANS became a success for Merchant Ivory Productions in Europe as well as America.
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- Sales Rank: 107,313
- UPC: 191329135587
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