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Certainly Bergman renders the fairy-tale aspects of Mozart's mise-en-scène with such buoyant detail that the film makes an excellent entrée both for youngsters and for anyone who is uneasy about how to approach an opera. Yet there is much food for thought to be savored by the already initiated as well. One of Bergman's more brilliant interventions is to depict Sarastro and the Queen of the Night as a divorced couple engaged in a bitter battle over daughter Pamina. The director supplies plenty of energetic wit and arabesques of allusion (in addition to his Prospero-like demeanor, the high priest Sarastro is shown at one point during the intermission perusing the score of Parsifal), and--as might be expected of one of film's greatest symbolists--teases out the opera's weightier allegorical levels with hauntingly beautiful effect. Brilliant chiaroscuro and contrasted lighting patterns, for example, offer ongoing visual commentary on the contest between darkness and light. The cast is exceptionally photogenic, their abundant youth and obvious chemistry more than compensating for the often no-more-than-mediocre vocal performances (with the exception of Håkan Hagegård's utterly disarming, still-fresh portrayal of Papageno). For a desert-island audio recording, try Thomas Beecham. --Thomas May
| ACTORS: | Josef Köstlinger |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 11 November, 1975 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Criterion |
| MPAA RATING: | G (General Audience) |
| FEATURES: | Color, DVD-Video, Special Edition, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Adult Situations, Color, Fanciful, Fantasy, Feature, Film-Opera, Foreign, Foreign Film - Swedish, Heroic Mission, High Artistic Quality, High Production Values, International, Light, Made for TV, Movie, Musical, Musical Fantasy, Musicals & Cast Recordings, Romantic Fantasy, Stylized |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 037429147528 |
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The tenor became a basbarython Ingmar Bergman's The Magic Flute is a masterpiece. But the DVD was in some way defective. The music played in something like 2/3 tempo. Unbearable. The DVD is now on its way back to Amazon.
Mozart + Bergman+ Flute = Magic
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>It is not surprising at all that having been a long-time an admirer of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music and especially his opera "Die Zauberflöte" ("The Magic Flute"), Ingmar Bergman has adapted it in one of the best and enjoyable operatic film ever made. Watching Bergman's presentation of "The Magic Flute" does not require from a viewer an extensive opera-going experience or familiarization with all his often morose psychological studies. "The Magic Flute" (the opera or/and the film) can be enjoyed on different levels. It has many hidden philosophical and political references which were relevant back in 18th century but it is also a beautiful and poetic fairy tale which has many funny scenes (thanks to Papageno, the bird-catcher) as well as lyrical and tender scenes between two young lovers, and the dark ones with the sinister sorcerers. I've seen "The Magic Flute" in the different countries, in different versions and adaptations but I enjoyed the most Ingmar Bergman's vision of it. In 1975 National Society of USA Film Critics awarded Ingmar Bergman with a Special Award - for demonstrating how pleasurable opera can be on film. There is nothing I can add only that Mozart + Bergman+ Flute = Magic.
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Bergman's film of the Flute really is magical. I have never seen a better film of an opera (most opera DVDs are records of stage performances, of course, and not true films in the cinematic sense). I've also not seen a stage performance which captures the spirit of this opera as well as Bergman does. The alliance of two masters of their respective crafts, opera and cinema, has produced something which trancends the original in its ability to delight the viewer.
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