Product Details

• Actors: Mimsy Farmer, Klaus Grünberg, Heinz Engelmann, Michel Chanderli, Henry Wolf (III)
• Directors: Barbet Schroeder
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Homevision
• DVD Release Date: April 5, 2005
• Run Time: 117 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0007PAMJM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,654 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "More" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Barbet Schroeder, the Oscar-nominated director of Reversal of Fortune, made his debut with this jaundiced view of the European youth drug culture. Klaus Grünberg is a naive German student who falls for blond American junkie Mimsy Farmer and discovers drugs in Paris. He follows the flighty babe to Ibiza, a sunny Mediterranean island paradise, where he falls into the world of former Nazi-turned-heroin-pusher Heinz Engelmann and succumbs to addiction. Part counterculture portrait, part antidrug drama, it's a shaggy little film that suggests the New Wave influence in a rambling pace, gorgeous asides of fun in the sun (our heroes get high and tilt at windmills--literally--in one free and easy moment), and deadpan bursts of intermittent narration. But Schroeder has little affinity with youth culture, and the film more often fits the conservative tenor of American cautionary drug dramas of the 1960s and '70s. To the film's credit, it never succumbs to the druggie clichés of the time. You'll find none of the kaleidoscope lenses, whip pans, sunlight reflections searing the image, or choppy montages to rock & roll hits that fill the drug-culture classics, just the handsome, earthy, intimate photography of Néstor Almendros. Today, More remains most famous for its subdued, moody Pink Floyd score. --Sean Axmaker

Product Description

Having graduated college, Stefan hitchhikes from Lubeck, Germany, to Paris, France, where he finds the warm embrace of Estelle–an American expatriate and heroin user. Together, they chase the sun to the island of Ibiza where they develop even more interesting relationships with the island’s leading drug dealer and a girlfriend of Estelle’s. Made in the late sixties, Barbet Schroeder’s (Barfly) directorial debut is a treatment of pleasure, pain and tragedy that stands apart from numerous counterculture exploitation films. With Academy Award® winning cinematographer Nestor Almendros (Days of Heaven), More never resorts to predictable LSD-induced stylistics, but rather atypically adopts a style of objectivity to illuminate the ideas and emotions that contribute to a lifestyle of destructive excess. After years of languish this relevant cult classic, featuring a soundtrack by Pink Floyd, is finally available for a new generation.

Customer Reviews

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65 of 75 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Censored DVD, August 10, 2005

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Steve Krajcirovic - See all my reviews
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This review is from: More (DVD)

I bought this video thinking it would be a complete unedited version. i was wrong its the same as the vhs version i also purchased from amazon.com. drug references are edited out and so are partial scenes. do not buy this video from amazon in vhs or dvd.i was fortunate to have rented an uncensored vhs copy from tower records a few years ago. now im stuck with two crap copies. i wish amazon had forewarned me before purchase.i will no longer buy from amazon.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dig it..., June 23, 2000

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Andrew Asp (Oakland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: More [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I totally liked "More"... Nestor Alemandros does excellent camera work as always, Mimsy Farmer is a complete babe, and there's lots of cool scenes of them getting high. And actually, it's a pretty accurate morality tale.. I don't think it falls for the 'reefer madness' stuff, but it shows a starkly realistic descent into the nightmare of heroin addiction. I'm suprised the movie is not given a fair shake.. during the wild, get-high times of the late '60s, this is a great little film that shows the downside of drug culture without being preachy. And it's gorgeous to look at.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute MUST for Floyd fans, September 11, 2001

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Scott M Bacon (Lowell, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: More [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I first heard of this film in 1984 when I first started to get into Pink Floyd. The soundtrack album, though still one of my favorites, seemed to be an echo of something bigger, yet out of reach. Because of this, the film (to me, anyway) was something I had to be in search of. I found a copy at Lechmere in the mid 90's and was psyched. Almost a 'music video' to the soundtrack album, it aslo features songs not heard on the soundtrack album (most notably the never-released "Seabirds") and some cuts with different mixes (like "Cymbaline" with Waters on lead vocals).
For these reasons alone, the film is a must for any avid Floyd fan. Apart from that, I've seen very few films that document the free-spiritedness of the era. Made in 1969 and set in the same present, it chronicles Stephan - a German math student's travels through Europe, where he meets Estelle, an American Heroin user.
Soon Stephan is using everyday and quickly becomes addicted. You'll have to watch it to find out what happens to Stephan, I won't spoil it here. Suffice it to say that this is one of the bleakest, darkest and most truthful depictions of hard drug addiction. The letterbox version offers little more landscape than the original home video release, but it does have a really cool trailer (in french) at the end. Also the original release had no subtitles and the widescreen version does ("...so THAT's what they were saying"). All in all it's a great film but much better if you are an avid Pink Floyd fan.
If you love Floyd, this film is a MUST!
If you love heroin, this film may change your view.
Either way, you'll have some kind of reaction.