Definitely not a movie for everyone, but should please fans of the classic opera.
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12/19/02
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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Reviews for Tosca
As it stands it's an opera movie for the buffs.
05/06/02
It is impossible to imagine wanting to see Jacquot's film more than once, if that.
09/20/02
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09/21/02
Opera 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
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
A fine production with splendid singing by Angela Gheorghiu, Ruggero Raimondi, and Roberto Alagna.
07/12/02
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.
06/06/09
The director sees the strengths of Alagna and Gheorghiu and plays them for every cinematic moment.
08/29/02
Jacquot has filmed the opera exactly as the libretto directs, ideally capturing the opera's drama and lyricism.
01/16/02
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
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07/26/05
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12/30/06
Director Benoit Jacquot, making his first opera-to-film translation with Tosca, conveys the heaving passion of Puccini's famous love-jealousy- murder-suicide fandango with great cinematic innovation.
08/02/02
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07/17/05
Every conceivable mistake a director could make in filming opera has been perpetrated here.
07/27/02
If the material is slight and admittedly manipulative, Jacquot preserves Tosca's intoxicating ardor through his use of the camera.
07/10/02
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