The Circle (Widescreen)

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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 37 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: February 6, 2007
  • Originally Released: 2006
  • Label: Arts Alliance Amer

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Total Count: 22

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 286
Stefan Haupt beautifully re-creates the enduring love story between two members, French-literature teacher Ernst Ostertag and hairdresser/drag queen Röbi Rapp, that survived the stresses of secrecy and homophobia of the 1950s. Full Review
Georgia Straight
Aug 7, 2018
Rating: 3/4 -- Stefan Haupt's conscientious and engaging film makes clear right off the bat that, no, there was no place in Europe that was a gay utopia in this period and that even the most progressive-minded of societies had their growing pains. Full Review
RogerEbert.com
Nov 21, 2014
Rating: 3/5 -- It's not exactly Oscar-worthy drama, but you'll feel the injustice of people forced to hide their true selves. Full Review
Time Out
Dec 11, 2014
The Circle does a great job of taking us back to a more repressive time in gay history (which continues in some areas of the world to this very day) - so much so that it's infuriating to watch at times. Full Review
Gay Essential
Sep 15, 2019
Rating: 3/5 -- Though told in a somewhat stagey, stop-and-start manner, Haupt's film revives a little-known but important part of LGBT history. Full Review
Montreal Gazette
Dec 12, 2014
Rating: 3/5 -- The early days of gay rights are lovingly, clunkily presented in director Stefan Haupt's docudrama about Swiss gay magazine the Circle. Full Review
Guardian
Dec 11, 2014
Rating: 4/5 -- The Circle ... offers the best of both worlds, a perfect marriage of marvellous historical drama and moving testimony. Full Review
Irish Times
Dec 13, 2014

Product Description:

Writer/director Yuri Zeltser infuses much-needed experimentation into the tired suspense genre with his innovative frightfest THE CIRCLE. Filmed in one continuous, unedited take à la Alfred Hitchcock's ROPE, THE CIRCLE follows a desperate housewife (the always superb Angela Bettis, MAY, SICK GIRL) as she attempts to persuade a ruthless mobster to call off a hit against her husband.

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