Product Details

• Actors: Yves Afonso, Guido Alberti, Gabrielle Doulcet, David Drach, Luce Fabiole
• Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC
• Subtitles: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Connoisseur/Meridian
• VHS Release Date: April 30, 1996
• Run Time: 110 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303495575
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #346,052 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, great, beautiful and symbolic, September 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Les Violons Du Bal [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie takes place in both the past and present. The present is done in black and white, while the past is in color. This is a movie about a director who is working through his experiences as a child. During WWII, he and his mother were Jews living in Paris who slowly lost all their rights and eventually fled. He grapples with thier experiences and his life with his wife and child. It's fascinating, although sometimes difficult to follow. There is a lot of transcutting and are many shifts in time. This is a great film if your'e looking for something less ordinary as well as highly symbolic and meaningful.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Greatest French Films Made, February 6, 2000

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Ms. D.S. Davidson (New York (Tendaberry), NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Les Violons Du Bal [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The contrasting visuals of a technicolor film (which takes place in the auteur's past) and a film about him trying to make that same film (shot not in black-and-white but in video) are combined brilliantly in this movie. Much humor is derived from the "business aspects" of making a film about his Jewish family's life in France before and during the time Nazis occupied it. This is a story about Western European Jews (much like German Jews) and it differs a lot from the Eastern European stories. An astounding film by a genius filmmaker.