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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396230118
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Running Time: 124 minutes
Sales Rank: 31148
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1977
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Product Description:
A racing car champion falls in love with a freewheeling lady who is suffering from an incurable disease. Based on the novel "Heaven Has No Favorites" by Eric Maria Remarque.
Amazon.com:
Al Pacino's character in the first two Godfather films was a man increasingly drawn into himself, pulling an entire family history and legacy along with him into a personal oblivion. Pacino's performance as the titular race car driver in Sydney Pollack's Bobby Deerfield also suggests a fellow adrift in his own company, his very profession underscoring isolation behind the wheel at top speeds. Living with his French lover (Anny Duperey), Deerfield's solipsism (perfectly captured in a dream sequences in which he appears almost autistic) begins to crack when he meets and falls for a dying woman (Marthe Keller). Emerging from his shell just as she is fading away, both the irony of the situation and Deerfield's first experience with real love wake our hero from his spiritual slumber. Pollack's attempt at a mainstream art-house movie didn't entirely work, and critics have been brutal on both its serious aspirations and Pacino's locked-down performance. But there is something in the film that convincingly suggests a yearning for passion and experience even at the great cost of loss, and Pacino's portrayal of a man who steps out of his car and onto the collective bus of ordinary sorrow is rather moving. --Tom Keogh
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I read that this was one of Pacino's personal favorites, so I decided to see for myself. It is NOT in any way a "typical" Pacino film, but he develops a character throughout the film that becomes a loving, vunerable man which is a rarity in his films, at least from my point of view. The other fantastic aspect of the film is the wonderful photography of central Europe. The lake district in northern Italy is particularly artfully filmed. I've spent much time there, and the cinematography really ... Read More
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I have seen this movie several years ago on cable and have been in love with it ever since. I have been waiting for years for it to come out in DVD. This movie is fantastically produced and very well directed. I love the era this movies was made in and can only recommend it very very higly. A true Classic. Pollack never received the credit he deserved for this movie.
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One of my favorite Pacino movies ---beautiful music, scenery and a sweet story about a man who had his life changed when he learned to love a woman who was dying ---Marthe Keller is great in this movie - quirky and interesting, and Al is in a very untypical role for him. Wish he had done more movies like this one. I would recommend it to any fan of Al's.
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Dave Grusin's sometimes jazzy and often emotional soundtrack may be the only saving grace for Al Pacino's obscure 1978 film Bobby Deerfield. Released for the first time on DVD in 2008, this is one of Sydney Pollack's lesser known movies, and rightfully so. With picturesque countryside cinematography and inside-the-cockpit video game cameras (during the only real race scene), the film has no action as advertised, and the romantic drama is of the barely perceptible kind.
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I wonder if most people even know or remember this film. I saw it in the theatres and have loved it since. I am so glad to see that it is finally being released onto DVD. Very Europeanan style (especially the score),the film follows the beautiful and tragic love affair between Pacino and Keller (they became a real life couple during the filming). Based on the Erich Maria Remarque novel, "Heaven has no favorites", director Sydney Pollack knows how to create a beautifully romantic tapestry with the touch ... Read More
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