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The Tales of Hoffmann
The film tells three romantic love stories of Hoffmann with three of his woman in the past, Olympia, Giulietta, and Antonia. Although Hoffmann gradually lost each of the woman, however, he gained poetic inspiration as a result, allowing him to transform painful experiences into art.
18 August 1884, Hajdúnánás, Hungary
9 April 1909, Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia
8 July 1917, London, England, UK
1925, Southport, Lancashire, England, UK
11 July 1904, Kensington, London, England, UK
2 December 1917, Paris, France
25 March 1914, Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA
24 December 1920, London, England, UK
16 September 1919, Copenhagen, Denmark
10 October 1924, Paris, France
February 26, 2015
You might compare this to the 1948 Powell and Pressburger film The Red Shoes, though in many ways it is even more hallucinatory.
November 26, 2012
Hard to take, despite the clear personal commitment of director Michael Powell and the enormous amount of talent on display in the photography, set design, and choreography.
February 23, 2015
As a work of pure, imaginative cinema, it comes close to genius.
February 26, 2015
Only the slightly muddled structure detracts from what is otherwise an audacious cinematic experiment.
March 01, 2015
Encore!
March 13, 2015
A gorgeous (2015) digital restoration. A fun, wittily directed and technically impressive achievement.
April 16, 2015
The film will never rank among my favorites in the careers of these filmmakers, but filmmaking legends as diverse as Cecil B. DeMille, Martin Scorsese and George A. Romero all adore it ...
February 27, 2015
It's a work of hysterical excess and flamboyant extravagance and it feels unlike pretty much anything else you will ever see in a cinema.
March 12, 2015
"Hoffmann" is an immersive aesthetic experience best thought of as an art form all its own.
November 26, 2012
One of the most completely realized marriages of color, movement, and music in the medium's history.
April 23, 2015
Most if not all of these performers have since died; here, they live on.
December 12, 2015
The obvious care and effort that have gone into Hoffmann, the sometimes memorably contrived passages of virtuosity in the first half, make one reluctant to insist on the collapse of the work as a whole.