Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786304342954 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6304342950 Label: Polygram USA Video Manufacturer: Polygram USA Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Polygram USA Video Release Date: November 04, 1997 Running Time: 123 minutes Studio: Polygram USA Video Theatrical Release Date: October 18, 1996 Sales Rank: 11944
Amazon.com: British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom didn't make a particularly good film until Welcome to Sarajevo, and this curiously dry adaptation of Thomas Hardy's last novel is a good example. Christopher Eccleston plays Jude Fawley, a self-educated stonemason who dreams of attending university but identifies with the working class. Kate Winslet is his cousin Sue Bridehead, a young woman with suffragette leanings and a position as a teacher's assistant. When the two enter into an illicit union, they are condemned to the margins of society, ultimately resulting in a horrifying tragedy. Winterbottom takes an oddly lean approach to Hardy's deterministic story, which leaves a viewer feeling short on emotion just when one needs it for the from-bad-to-worse third act. Welcome to Sarajevo proved that Winterbottom needs a whole other level of personal involvement to make a film that inspires him. Jude isn't one of those lucky films. --Tom Keogh
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Rating: - Watch Something Else!
Two hours of my time were wasted by watching this dreary film. I kept hoping it would get better, but no. It's relentlessly cruel, achingly futile and supremely depressing. Not even it's two very talented ... Read More
Rating: - A good soundtrack in search of a movie.
About the only thing this movie has going for it is the excellent music. The producers of this film are out of their mind if they expect any viewer who's not screwed-up in the head to feel sorry for the two ... Read More
Rating: - A tangled web of breaking social codes
This was Winslet's pre-Titanic post-Heavenly Creatures film baed on the Thomas Hardy novel. It's a story with very shocking social themes for the period setting: cousins in love, one being married to a woman ... Read More
Rating: - AN EXCELLENT MOVIE .NOT FOR KIDS VERY VIOLENT.
I JUST WATCHED THIS DVD AND ALL I CAN SAY IS WOW.KATE WINSLET AND CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON GIVE STELLAR PERFORMANCES.THE STORY TAKES PLACE IN SCOTLAND.IS VERY VIOLENT,AND VERY DEPRESSING.THERE ARE A LOT OF MIND ... Read More
Rating: - Social Shocker
Michael Winterbottom who directed "Welcome to Sarajevo" & "Butterfly Kiss" helmed this project that sank like a stone at the box office. Thomas Hardy's last novel "Jude the Obscure" was so poorly received ... Read More
- Watch Something Else!
- A good soundtrack in search of a movie.
- AN EXCELLENT MOVIE .NOT FOR KIDS VERY VIOLENT.