Greta Garbo Box Set details
| Format: | PG DVD |
|---|---|
| Starring: | Greta Garbo |
| Directors: | George Fitzmaurice, Ernst Lubitsch, Rouben Mamou |
| Genres: | Drama - General, Period, Gay/Lesbian - General |
| Name | Discs | |
|---|---|---|
Ninotchka |
U Disc 1 | |
Queen Christina |
U Disc 2 | |
Camille |
PG Disc 3 | |
Anna Christie |
U Disc 4 | |
Anna Karenina |
U Disc 5 | |
Mata Hari |
PG Disc 6 |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 9 hours 40 minutes |
|---|---|
| Rental release: | Currently unavailable |
| Main languages: | English |
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Swede dreams
By a customer from London , 28 Jan 2009[Highly rated reviewer]
I'd not seen Garbo before really, she is one of those acting legends one always heard about as a kid but the films never seemed to be on telly, or now for that matter.
She's great, quite contemporary in her voice and manner. Kind of Scandi-American. She plays the Swedish monarch in the 1600s 30 Year War that raged, bankrupting Norway my flatmate tells me. Though it's a 1933 film it is quality stuff.
Great stuff for the first hour, then it kind of lost me as court intrique intervened - nothing wrong with that but it's more soap opera than, say, Cate Blanchett's Elizabeth. The actual ending left me bemused, too.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(4)Anna Christie
By a customer , 23 Mar 2013Very cute film. Had never seen Garbo before and she was not what I expected i. e. not dark and brooding but down-to-earth and refreshing. Anna Christie made me think of a Chekov play the way it had such simple staging. There were long pauses where normally the screen would switch to another shot, and rather than making you bored it made you wonder what was going to happen next - like in real life. The story was simple but the characters strong though not deep, just intreaguing to watch. Marie Dressler playing the lady tramp Marthy was my favourite. She chewed on every line and transformed it into pure gold. I loved how Garbo brought a whole new idea of feminity to her performance and her image i. e. I'll do what I damn well please! Although in the 30s this still meant keep house and look after the men. But she did it her way.- Was this review helpful to you?
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ninotchka- garbo's good but the film is surely very offensive towards russians
By sherriffflood (45 reviews) from Reading , 23 Jan 2010I know it's the 30's but still, It might have well have been a propoganda film!- Was this review helpful to you?
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Swede dreams
By a customer from London , 28 Jan 2009[Highly rated reviewer]
I'd not seen Garbo before really, she is one of those acting legends one always heard about as a kid but the films never seemed to be on telly, or now for that matter.
She's great, quite contemporary in her voice and manner. Kind of Scandi-American. She plays the Swedish monarch in the 1600s 30 Year War that raged, bankrupting Norway my flatmate tells me. Though it's a 1933 film it is quality stuff.
Great stuff for the first hour, then it kind of lost me as court intrique intervened - nothing wrong with that but it's more soap opera than, say, Cate Blanchett's Elizabeth. The actual ending left me bemused, too.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Anna Christie
By a customer from Whitchurch , 07 Sep 2008Thank you for asking. Unusually, I thought this a very poor film, and did not enjoy it.
The plot was so thin that it does not provoke any further comment.
The Swede, and even more so the Irishman, were absurd caricatures. I am not as familiar with prostitutes as I am with Swedes and Irishmen, but Garbo seemed to me far too demure for a woman with such a past, and far too 'picky' to have made a living that way. Only the Swede's 'girlfriend' carried any conviction.
There seemed to be a crew of one, who appeared once. French barges of that size and age have a forepeak cabin (are American barges different?), where such a crew might escape attention, but this chap was unbelievably unobtrusive. He would have been needed at sea.
The arrival of the Irishman out of the mist would have been more believable if he had walked across the water. It is simply not possible to design whatever it was he was meant to be standing on so that it supports a standing man, carries his companions clear enough of the water for them to stand a chance of survival, and can be propelled with the speed and accuracy shown. I was no more convinced by the drinking scenes. On the whole, the more they drank, the more sober they seemed!
I thought Garbo looked very pretty.- Was this review helpful to you?
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