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Maria's Lovers
List Price: $14.98
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$13.49
on 11-27-2008
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Features
Actors: Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Robert Mitchum, Keith Carradine, Anita Morris
Directors: Andrei Konchalovsky
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English, French
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: 
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Release Date: December 26, 2001
Run Time: 109 minutes
Average Customer Review:
  (12 customer reviews)
Reader Reviews
MARIA'S LOVERS (1984), was a hit, and frequently shown in the theatres, back in the day of its release. Comprising famous stars from that time, Nastassja Kinski, Robert Mitchum and John Savage, the reputations of all 3 was extremely merited, considering the outstanding job the actors did in bringing this work to life. Anita Morris also packs a tremendous presence, as well, to the screen, with dancing action and intense looks, interacting very well, too, with the others, alternating between a hysterical, artificial call girl of sorts, with a more serious, affectionate conduct. Clearly, not all people in an audience finds a sentimental, romantic movie appealing, that underlines the ephemeral nature of various stages in one's life, (death, birth, the crossing from a youthful maturity into married adulthood, and the need to make the right choice for the relationship to work.) The author shows an extreme skill in crafting a story about a relationship between a man and a woman, before and after the marriage, the challenges, changes and discoveries occuring thereafter among the partners. It also tells how old habits sometimes die hard, such as the urge for spontaneous romantic relationships between other men and/or women even after the formal union is made. As before, this show the character oscillating one and another partner depending on which brings the most excitement at the time, etc. We see Kinski plaging a girl who easily infatuates, and captures the sentimental imaginations of men, who are on the same wave length as her own, that she projects unknowingly or not. At the same time, Savage is the husband, who is unable to move beyond or even cope with, those 2 feelings, both before, during and after their marriage. Unable to progress to a deeper, more meaningful emotional and mental rapport with Kinski, Savage, reaching for immediate answers and relief (like for an Aspirin), finds the solution in simple girls of his own socio-economic background with which he was raised and is comfortable in all aspects. While all this is happening, isolated between her aging mother, her career as a maternity ward nurse and as a neglected married woman, Kinsky turns to casual romantic encounters with a handful of men who can read her situation instinctively, and can satisfy her artistic and other impulses. The cinematography is impeccable, with a sharp, clear transfer to DVD, even after 20 years, the movie doesn't seem to have aged at all, on screen, especially from the timeless, idyllic tiny rural US town depicted. The automobiles, homes, clothes worn, layout of the town all convincingly shows that these are the 1950's or early 60s. With Savage playing a veteran of the Second World War, released from a Japanese POW camp, the movie wisely refrains from touching upon the military life for more than only a few brief moments, to avoid opening up a Pandora's box of pre-judgements, experiences, struggles, hazings, isolation, stress, or memories of overcrowded conditions of such a canp experience, that otherwise would distract from the story. Keith Carradine plays a ambulant musician, bringing some accoustic guitar numbers, and a bit of humor and outside perspective to the story, that otherwise would have obviously been more introverted, intensely personal, occuring between Kinsky and Savage.
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Price: $13.49
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