Spirits Of The Dead
1968
Three giants of world cinema conspire to bring the dark prose of Edgar Allan Poe to the screen in Spirits of the Dead. Roger Vadim, Luis Malle, and Federico Fellini direct Jane and Peter Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, and Terence Stamp in three separate stories of souls tormented by their own phantasmal visions of guilt, .. Read more
| Starring | Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Jane Fonda, Terence Stamp |
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| Director | Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim |
| Genres | World Cinema |
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Spirits Of The Dead
Three giants of world cinema conspire to bring the dark prose of Edgar Allan Poe to the screen in Spirits of the Dead. Roger Vadim, Luis Malle, and Federico Fellini direct Jane and Peter Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, and Terence Stamp in three separate stories of souls tormented by their own phantasmal visions of guilt, lust, and greed.
| Starring | Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Jane Fonda, Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda, Vincent Price, James Robertson Justice |
|---|---|
| Director | Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim |
| Studio | LACE GROUP |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 56 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: French |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 05 Nov 2007 Production year: 1968 |
| Format | DVD |
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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
One third brilliant, two thirds forgettable
Portmanteau films can be difficult to rate: do you choose an average rating for three very different stories or rate it for the best of them? Here two humdrum stories grind you down before the last - Fellini's 'Toby Dammit' with Terence Stamp - hits you right between the eyes with energy, atmosphere and sheer cinematic brilliance. I don't know the original story but it's fairly clear this more Fellini than Poe, and worth sitting through the earlier films for. The first is directed by Roger Vadim and is a silly confection closer to Xena than Poe, starring Jane Fonda. The second is directed by Louis Malle (you instantly notice it's better directed than the preceding Vadim tale) and is more serious if a bit ho-hum. Watch this film for the last tale though. If it was just the Fellini, I'd have rated this at 5 stars and wanted more.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Interesting French language versions of a "Hammer" horror compendium...
We all know the creaky Hammer horror compendiums (usually linked by Peter Cushing) and this French language version is intriguing if not wholly successful. Three renowned directors each take an Edgar Allan Poe story, stick in a famous face or two and let the cameras roll.
The first story is the worst, with Roger Vadim (badly) directing then-wife Jane Fonda (complete with schoolgirl French) and brother Peter in a Marquis de Sade-meets-Barbarella yawnfest. Fonda rides a black horse a lot and wears skimpy costumes... Next!
The second story is much better, with Louis Malle directing Alain Delon and Brigitte Bardot in a tale of a doppelganger who haunts Delon throughout his whole wicked life. The card playing scene between Delon and Bardot is work the entrance price alone and Malle really knows how to extract the maximum amount of emotion from his actors with minimal effort...
The third story, directed by Federico Fellini, stars our own Terence Stamp and is such a riot of outrageous scenes that you would think it was directed yesterday and not in 1968! Basically, Stamps plays an alcoholic actor (Peter O'Toole was - not surprisingly - originally cast but had to pull out) in league with the Devil who goes to Rome for one final film. The ending on the bridge is classic.
So, we start off badly but end on a high... Worth a viewing... -
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