Antigone - Rites of Passion

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Delicious.......2006-06-01

We saw this sophomore year in Honors Humanities after reading Antigone. I enjoyed it very much. It was actually very educational. I now understand that there are some very strange people in the world. This video was almost like "educational" softcore porn, which pretty much everybody in my class enjoyed. If you want to make somebody laugh, this is the movie to have them watch, but make sure they understand Antigone's story first.

Just. Plain. Awful........2006-03-16

Maybe this film has some redeeming qualities. I sure couldn't find any.

This movie is essentially soft-core porn with a really bad soundtrack. The costumes clash (you have some characters wearing basically rags and the rest wearing things that wouldn't be out of place in the Matrix). I really haven't found a lot that matches up with the actual play. I wish the characters would actually speak themselves, instead of having a narration. After all, I'm sure they're not all mute.

This tops my 'Worst Films Ever Seen' list, which isn't very long. And I'm sure it's on a 'Worst Films Ever Made' list. Somewhere. I hope.

Give it an "A" for "awful".......2004-03-11

From beginning to end, the students in the AP English Class at my high school where stunned by the "over-dramatic" and offensive imagery portrayed in this movie. It was too much to bear. I would never, ever recommend under any circumstance borrowing, buying, or being gifted with this film.

psuedo-intellectual bombast.......2003-12-05

Where to start? Amy Greenfield's "emotionally relentless, visually stunning" interpretation of the classic play is admittedly "relentless" and I was indeed "stunned." The video was purchased to augment an eleventh grade honors class, ostensibly to show a different, modern, visual interpretation of a Greek classic that touches us still, thousands of years later. Sophocles's play does still affect us today because it taps into primal human issues--family honor, immortality, fate, the role of government, faith, and the list goes on. Greenfield's overblown piffle does not. I do not recommend this for anyone, except as a study in bad, self-important "Art" with that tell-tale capitol "A". This isn't dance. The important dialogue is absent. The music is discordant, oppressive and the best part of the whole mess. The oracle at Delphi was clear to both Oedipus and his father, Laius: Oedipus will kill his father, marry his mother and have monstrous children. Finally, in the form of Amy Greenfield's "Antigone: Rites of Passion" we have the monstrous child at last. Apollo is always right. And you know what? He'd tell you not to buy this turkey.

An descent, powerful and emotional look on Antigone.......2002-04-28

When I ordered it I did it because I knew that Diamanda Galas - my favorite artist - was partially responsible for the music. I'm usually very pre-occupied with modern "glances" on Ancient Hellenic tragedies. It is my belief that a remake of something as classical, as powerfull and as timelessly meaningful as every Ancient Hellenic tragedy is can be eigther a masterpiece or a complete disaster.
The first few minutes that I watched, I felt that it would be a disaster but I thought "what the hell, I gave my money to buy this DVD so I'll watch it to the end". And so I did.
I'm not in a position that makes me to say only that I fortunately didn't switch off my DVD player. I'm in the position to say that I feel extremely previleged to have Amy Greenfield's work on Antigone. And that's because I figured out that she has kept a very basic element of Ancient Hellenic tragedy. The slow and escelating motivation of the viewers interest for the play. Antigone realy gets more and more interesting as the minutes pass.
I won't get involved in a detailed analysis of the film witch realy exposes its meanings and its power little be little. I just want to say that Amy Greenfield did such a splendid work that she deserves to claim that she did a remake equal only to masterpieces.

CALIGULA "Complete, Unedited and Unrated Twentieth Anniversary Edition" (Digitally Remastered & Fully Restored) / ANTIGONE "Rites of Passion" {{{2 DVD Set}}}

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CALIGULA "Complete, Unedited and Unrated Twentieth Anniversary Edition" (Digitally Remastered & Fully Restored) / ANTIGONE "Rites of Passion" {{{2 DVD Set}}}

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