Movie Title:Marat / Sade

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This movie is actually a filmed version of a play and this is certain in the viewing; the director doesn’t do consume of all the potential of the medium, it’s filmed all in one pick (unbiased as a play goes from commence to enact in one go), and the scene transitions are abrupt and awful. That being said, this film deserves no other criticism; it is certainly the finest I’ve ever seen and, I would argue, a tall movie in the English cinema. What makes it deserve such praise is that the acting is all very convincing and compelling, the costumes and staging are sublime and the script is, simply attach, incandescent. The novel title of the work fuctions as an superior summary: “The assasination and persecution of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum at Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade.” Status in the Napoleonic era eighteen years after the French Revolution, the Marquis (imprisoned for both political and sex crimes) directs the mentally ill inmates in a stylized recreation of the abolish of Jean-Paul Marat (a rabid Jacobin, confined to his bathtub by a skin disease, who wrote the most sanguinary Revolutionary propaganda) by Charlotte Corday (from a suitable background, but actually a partisan of the Girondin Revolutionaries who had been purged by Marat’s party) . This is a highly cerebral play and, although the scrip (a translation of Peter Wiess’ play) takes a very few liberties with the historical facts, a knowledge of the Revolution greatly helps in thought and appreciating this sometimes obscure movie. There are right shimmering pyrotechnics in the debates between Marat and de Sade, and the Marat’s monologues are filled with attractive revolutionary polemics. Corday is very well played, and her scenes are some of the most emotionally intense. The bright script, which doesn’t shrink from tackiling astronomical Ideas, combined with the tall execution earn this a valid movie. Or rather film.

This 1966 film depicts the Marquis de Sade’s imprisonment in a mental asylum and a play that he directs using the other inmates as actors. The narrative of Sade was recently related in “Quills,” and that film is somewhat similar in tone, but not position. Beget it or not, the film is also a musical! The “play” within the movie chronicles events from the French Revolution pertaining to Marat, and is place on for the asylum’s leader and the local gentry. The local gentry are frightened at times, and the asylum leader interrupts the play several times with interjections concerning the play’s radical ideas and how the gentry are depicted. As the play reaches its culmination, the inmates inevitably start to stage their gain revolution. The action is often confusing, but the emotions conveyed are so intense, that the film can be enjoyed on a visceral level.

The direction of this film is quite vivid, and it must have been ravishing grisly when it was released 36 years ago. The acting is also very intense and realistic. Glenda Jackson has her starring debut here and is quite intelligent, considering that she’s playing a mental asylum inmate. The only quibble I have with the DVD is the terrible sound quality. Even on DVD, the sound is muddled and the actor’s dialogue is often unintelligible, especially during the songs. Unfortunately, the DVD does not include captions/subtitles, which would have helped immensely (there are no other extras either) . A very worthwhile movie that could have been presented better on this DVD.
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