Product Details

• Actors: Étienne Guichard, Régis Bouquet, Francesco De Rosa, Arnault LeCarpentier, Liliane Delval
• Directors: Ettore Scola
• Writers: Ettore Scola, Furio Scarpelli, Jean-Claude Penchenat, Ruggero Maccari
• Producers: Franco Committeri, Giorgio Silvagni, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
• Format: NTSC, Color
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: July 1, 1991
• Run Time: 112 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00000F29P
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #74,766 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Un classique de Ettore Scola, ., December 25, 2002

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Michèle Caya (Pointe-Claire ( Montréal), Quebec Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Le Bal [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Sans parole (mais non pas muet). Le film nous montre l'évolution d'une clièntèle régulère d'un petit "bal". A voir et à revoir pour finir par comprendre le mode allégorique de ce film.Des personnages qui viennent et reviennent avec des âges différents, une histoire différente, des liens créés entre eux à ce "bal". Il n'y a pas d'histoire dans ce film, sauf celle que le spectateur peut déduire

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the best movie ever, January 31, 2006

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Aye Feride Sabuncuoglu (Ankara, Kizilay Turkey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Le Bal [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is the best movie I have seen. I no longer own a video and wonder why I cant see this title under DVD!!!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars When the words are superfluous, May 30, 2007

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Galina (Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Le Bal [Region 2] (DVD)

In "Le Bal" (1983) directed by Ettore Scola, the 50 year history of Europe happens in front of you in one ballroom somewhere in Paris where the same actors play the different characters that live through their dances from 1930s to the 1980s as the time passes by and politics, social behavior, and fashion change with each new epoch... For less than two hours we would go through the wars, peace, racial conflicts, student riots of 1968 while Ettore Scola's camera never leaves the ballroom. Dialogues and relationships are realized through the music and dancing only with no word spoken. Ironically, the film was nominated by the Academy for the Best Foreign Language movie award. It should've been nominated for the best Universal Language award - the language of music. The soundtrack features the works of such composers as Frederick Chopin, Irving Berlin, John Lennon, and Paul Mc Cartney. The original music was written by one of my favorite film composers, Vladimir Cosma. I saw "Le Bal" over twenty years ago and it has stayed with me over all these years as fantastic, one of its kind unforgettable film.