Marat/Sade

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bruce F @bruce999 Aug 14 a play by an insane asylum... it is interesting to watch. but some of those actors get a little too much...like they are too close to the camera. not for families, or kids See more Alec B @Alec97 03/04/2024 Finds ways to keep the theatricality of the premise without forgetting its a movie. All of the performances are great here. See more Irene M @igawel 12/17/2023 Saw this play at Yale, don't recall as much singing in that production. The acting as phenomenal. At first it's confusing, but then one settles in the rhythm of the "play within the play". The discourse between Sade and Marat is really mesmerizing. See more 11/02/2014 As with the play, a grim frenzied descent into madness and the grotesque. It is also a masterpiece. See more 10/16/2014 I can't deny that this film was somewhat of a chore to get through. It's every bit as unruly and loud as the inmates characters in it. However, the composition of shots is dazzling and serves to both heighten emotion and make us feel the chaos not only within the asylum, but within the narrative told by the inmates themselves. See more 08/21/2012 Word by individual word, the complete credits of "The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade" are stamped out on a blank black screen, and I wonder if this, this production, the whole movie/play, is supposed to be irritating or genius. MARAT/SADE -- a film (Peter Brook, 1967) based on a play (Peter Weiss, 1963) about Sade (French asylum, 1808) overseeing a performance of his own play about Marat (French Revolution, 1792) -- is a funky story. All the different versions blur -- each layer crinkling up, stagey and weird, the flaws of the layer underneath it -- but the performances are almost all strong and curious and cute. See more Read all reviews

Marat/Sade

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