Product Details

• Actors: Lambert Wilson, Linh Dan Pham
• Directors: Marc Caro
• Format: Color, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: French
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: The Weinstein Company
• DVD Release Date: April 21, 2009
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001MEJY8C
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #132,196 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 04/21/2009

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars intelligent sci-fi, May 22, 2009

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J. Nalbach (Bushkill, Pa.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dante 01 (DVD)

Read a number of films reviews before watching the movie, and must say all of the criticism was completely lame. This is a visually and intellectually compelling movie for sci-fi fans that are tired of the futuristic pabulum Hollywood puts out.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "FANTASTIC", May 8, 2009

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Andrew Frame (sherwood park,alberta canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dante 01 (DVD)

Dante 01 is a brilliant!,french sci-fiction gem ,it's style and inventiveous ,it's excellent special effects and atmosphere ,lift this movie to a level that few american made sci-fic movies of this type , will ever achive!!. dante 01 is aspace prison for the criminally insane, that happens to be shaped like a cross,to the station comes a new prisoner with a doctor ,who has a new treatment that she's going to test on all the prisoners there,the new inmate has no name and is mute,so they call him "staint george", from the start he is not like the others,he has strange visions and powers that he reveals unexpectedly to everyone on the station.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Mon Dieu! - Pathetique!, March 7, 2011

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Jon (NY) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Dante 01 (DVD)

When "Delicatessen" first arrived on home video in the early 1990s it was a revelation. There hadn't been anything like it since Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" and no one besides Gilliam had seemed capable of treading such baroque, decaying and futuristic territory with such charm and humanity. Enter Marc Caro and co-creator Jean-Pierre Jeunet. The future seemed bright for lovers of the whimsically bizarre in film.

Yet, it was not to be. No sooner had they released their second film "City of Lost Children" than it became apparent that the magic was lost. Caro and Jeunet could fill every square inch of the screen with delectable decrepitude yet miss the beat they'd struck with their freshman effort. And Jeunet's films since have all proven, despite the popularity of "Amelie", to be completely unengrossing. They are not bad films, but I've found they lack the humanity, the audience interest in their protagonists, through excessive narration. Instead of explaining coldly how the main character feels, why not show it? For instance, despite the photo stills that imply the heroine Amelie as some sort of adorable flirtatious imp she proves throughout the film bearing her name to have almost no personality whatsoever. Not even the momentary inclusion of a fourth-wall breaking grin at the camera can save her lack of charisma.

Written and directed by "Delicatessen" and "City of Lost Children" co-director Marc Caro, "Dante 01" does not fall into that same trap. Instead, Caro offers us a film wherein there is not one character to serve as an emotional anchor, no one to root for. Not only is their no protoganist worth cheering, but you won't even care about the plot, if you can even decipher it before the film's end.

The best science fiction has always portrayed the most realistic human emotions and reactions in extraordinary settings - it serves as a mirror for who we are and often as a cautionary tale. Lesser science fiction simply thrills us with the unknown and terrifies us with apparitions from our wildest nightmares.

"Dante 01" does neither: it is so wrapped up in itself that you feel like you've walked in halfway through the movie even three minutes into it. And you likely won't have any idea what is going on until it concludes with it's self congratulatory yet pointlessly unengrossing finale. You will find the film's conclusion and the reacquirement of your personal time the only things to be grateful for regarding Caro's freshman solo outing.

The film has none of the twisted humor we've come to expect from the team of Jeunet-Caro, it takes itself painfully seriously - and I do mean painfully. Caro is clearly not the funny one of the duo.

I won't say don't see it, get it out of your system as I did if you need to attempt to prove to yourself that there is life after 'Delicatessen" (there isn't), but try not to actually pay for the single viewing "Dante 01" is barely worth.