The Agony and the Ecstasy
by Carol Reed
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Actor: Alberto Lupo, Charlton Heston, Diane Cilento, Harry Andrews, Rex HarrisonDirector: Carol Reed
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog; Latin (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 139 minutes
Release Date: 1995-03-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Studio: 20th Century Fox
VHS Movie Reviews of The Agony and the Ecstasy
Movie Review: Nearly a Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
An impressive film that should be in any film buff's library. The scenery, acting and story are very well done. Some license is taken with the lives of both Michelangelo and Pope Julius II. However, the acting and exchanges between Heston as Michelangelo and Rex Harrison as Julius II is superb. Introduction to the film provides important views and impressions of the Vatican setting and the spectacular creation of the famous ceiling painted by Michelangelo. A must see film.
Summary of The Agony and the Ecstasy
Carol Reed (The Third Man) directed this 1965 portrait of the relationship between Michelangelo (Charlton Heston) and Pope Julius II (Rex Harrison), who commissioned the artist to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Based on a novel by Irving Stone, the script plods along, juggling the dynamics between the two men along with a somewhat perfunctory love story and distracting battle sequences. Reed seems more attuned to the nuances and great pains of the artistic process, as seen in sequences of Michelangelo working. But the overall focus of the film is unfortunately fuzzy. --Tom KeoghArt House & International VHS Video
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