Farinelli

DVD Features

Making-Of featurette, Farinelli: Nostalgia for a Lost Voice
Cast and crew interviews featurette, Farinelli: the Birth of a Voice
New essay by film critic Kenji Fujishima

Discs: 1

Blu-ray Features

Making-Of featurette, Farinelli: Nostalgia for a Lost Voice
Cast and crew interviews featurette, Farinelli: the Birth of a Voice
New essay by film critic Kenji Fujishima

Discs: 1

• Highest Rating
  "Stops you in your tracks and transports you to a phantasmagorical world where music, mystery and magic hold sway."
  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice
• Highest Rating
  "For all its emotional extravagance and sheer Baroque lushness, "Farinelli" is actually a triumph of taut control and superb structuring. "
  Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
• Highest Rating
  "Farinelli is great fun and sufficiently thoughtful and complex to give food for continuing thought."
  Arthur Lazere, Culture Vulture
• Highest Rating
  "Exquisite-looking, well-acted and impeccably staged, the film is best watched as a juicy, gossipy guilty pleasure with the added cache of a “serious” subject (i.e., opera). There’s an excellent hi-def transfer; extras include a making-of featurette and on-set interviews."
  Kevin Filipski, Static Multimedia
• Highest Rating
  "The Blu-ray transfer in 2K helps preserve a truly splendid piece of moviemaking about a subject of which we've seen far too little. And don't miss the nearly hour-long Bonus Feature, Nostalgia for a Lost Voice, which details how so much of this amazing movie was researched and filmed -- with special attention to the way in which Farinelli's unusual voice was recreated, using the voices of two different singers, a female soprano and male counter-tenor, then seamlessly joining the two in the sound studio. Fascinating!"
  James van Maanen, TrustMovies
• Highest Rating
  "...a film that apparently takes some major liberties with Farinelli’s life and times but still functions as a pungent chronicle of the era."
  Andy Dursin , The Aisle Seat
• Highest Rating
  "The movie will appeal to fans of opera as well as those who enjoy lush period pieces."
  Bob Bloom, The Film Yap
• Highest Rating
  "The film is a sumptuous, extraordinarily moving and beautifully produced costume drama biopic...It’s another musical masterwork from Belgian director Gérard Corbiau."
  Amos Lassen, Reviews by Amos Lassen
• Highest Rating
  "The story is a richly dramatic one that's well-acted and impeccably rendered, with fine costumes and locations including some of the grandest opera houses in Europe"
  Porfle Popnecker, HK and Cult Film News
• Highest Rating
  "FARINELLI is both a visual and aural confection and a dramatic delight that one can indulge in like a rich dessert. And like any sumptuous treat, I didn't want it to end."
  Porfle Popnecker, HK and Cult Film News
• Highest Rating
  "Mix the plot of Milos Forman’s Amadeus with that of Robert Altman’s Vincent & Theo — and add a splash of David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers for the kinkiness factor — and you’ll have a fair approximation of the events transpiring in this Belgian import that’s loosely based on a true story"
  Matt Brunson, The Film Frenzy
• Highest Rating
  "Mix the plot of Milos Forman’s Amadeus with that of Robert Altman’s Vincent & Theo— and add a splash of David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers for the kinkiness factor — and you’ll have a fair approximation of the events transpiring in this Belgian import that’s loosely based on a true story"
  Matt Brunson, Film Frenzy