Benoit Jacquot ("School of Flesh") directs this stylistically challenging cinematic rendering of Giacomo Puccini's famous 1899 opera with an appropriately powerful performance by opera diva Angela Gheorgiu.
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06/06/09
Tosca (2002)
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Reviews Counted: 37
Fresh: 24
Rotten:13
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Theatrical Release:Jul 12, 2002 Limited
Synopsis: French director Benoit Jacquot (A SINGLE GIRL) adapts the famous opera by Giacomo Puccini in his film TOSCA. The stunningly dramatic opera stars--Angela Gheorghiu as Floria Tosca, Roberto Alagna as... [More]
Starring: Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Ruggero Raimondi
Director: Benoit Jacquot
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12/30/06
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06/24/06
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07/17/05
You would be better off investing in the worthy EMI recording that serves as the soundtrack, or the home video of the 1992 Malfitano-Domingo production.
06/12/03
Top CriticWith three excellent principal singers, a youthful and good-looking diva and tenor and richly handsome locations, it's enough to make you wish Jacquot had left well enough alone and just filmed the opera without all these distortions of perspective.
04/25/03
The performance is curiously cold, surprisingly artificial and removed from the very passion embedded deeply within the score and libretto.
04/25/03
Top CriticDefinitely not a movie for everyone, but should please fans of the classic opera.
12/19/02
For movie lovers as well as opera lovers, Tosca is a real treat.
12/06/02
Top CriticFrom the trembling fury of Gheorgiu's Tosca to the penetrating stare of Raimondi's Scarpia, this Tosca blazes with passion. At its best, it's sublime.
12/06/02
Top CriticJacquot's Tosca is a treat.
10/04/02
It is impossible to imagine wanting to see Jacquot's film more than once, if that.
09/20/02
Top CriticIf you can read the subtitles (the opera is sung in Italian) and you like 'Masterpiece Theatre' type costumes, you'll enjoy this movie.
08/30/02
The film just might turn on many people to opera, in general, an art form at once visceral and spiritual, wonderfully vulgar and sublimely lofty -- and as emotionally grand as life.
08/30/02
Top CriticPassion, lip-synching, tragedy, and lots of really really high notes. For me, this opera isn't a favorite, so it's a long time before the fat lady sings.
08/30/02
The director sees the strengths of Alagna and Gheorghiu and plays them for every cinematic moment.
08/29/02
Altogether, this is successful as a film, while at the same time being a most touching reconsideration of the familiar masterpiece.
08/14/02
Top CriticOpera on film is never satisfactory. The art demands live viewing. The innate theatrics that provide its thrills and extreme emotions lose their luster when flattened onscreen.
08/02/02
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