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Tosca

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Italy, France, United Kingdom · 2001
Rated PG-13 · 2h 0m
Director Benoît Jacquot
Starring Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Ruggero Raimondi, David Cangelosi
Genre Drama, Music

In this film adaptation of the opera, Cavaradossi shelters a political activist from the vile but magnetic Scarpia. However, Cavaradossi’s lover, Tosca, falls under Scarpia's spell and is reeled into a scheme of blackmail. Blinded by rage, Tosca makes an impulsive bid for revenge that ends tragically.

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L.A. Weekly by

This filmed Tosca -- not the first, by the way -- is a pretty good job, if it's filmed Tosca that you want. I'll stay with the stage versions, however, which bite cleaner, and deeper.

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New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

For the broader audience, this seems both suffocating and confusing -- True opera buffs, however, are more likely to feel thrilled, as if they're privy to a private production of the highest caliber.

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New Times (L.A.) by Gregory Weinkauf

Audiences are advised to sit near the back and squint to avoid noticing some truly egregious lip-non-synching, but otherwise the production is suitably elegant, a fine retreat from summer cinema overkill.

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New York Post by Megan Lehmann

Purists will probably have a conniption at the mere idea of messing with the form, but the worst thing about Jacquot's post-modern treatment is that its incongruity wrenches you out of the story.

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