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
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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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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2.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
With 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. Full Review |
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B- |
The performance is curiously cold, surprisingly artificial and removed from the very passion embedded deeply within the score and libretto. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Definitely not a movie for everyone, but should please fans of the classic opera. Full Review |
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4/4 |
For movie lovers as well as opera lovers, Tosca is a real treat. Full Review |
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B+ |
From 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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Jacquot's Tosca is a treat. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
It is impossible to imagine wanting to see Jacquot's film more than once, if that. Full Review |
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3/4 |
If you can read the subtitles (the opera is sung in Italian) and you like 'Masterpiece Theatre' type costumes, you'll enjoy this movie. Full Review |
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3/4 |
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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Passion, 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. Full Review |
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The director sees the strengths of Alagna and Gheorghiu and plays them for every cinematic moment. Full Review |
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Altogether, this is successful as a film, while at the same time being a most touching reconsideration of the familiar masterpiece. Full Review |
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