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6.7

♡ 7

Agnès Varda Director

Antoine Bourseiller as

André Rousselet as

Dorothée Blanck as L'amoureuse

José Varela as Lover

Impressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman.

Hannah and Her Sisters

1986

7.8

♡ 37

92%

Woody Allen Director

Daniel Stern as Dusty

Michael Caine as Elliot

Dianne Wiest as Holly

Christian Clemenson as Larry

Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.

Farinelli

1994

6.8

♡ 12

60%

Gérard Corbiau Director

Stefan Mazel as

Elsa Zylberstein as Alexandra

Jeroen Krabbé as Georg Friedrich Händel

Xenia Seeberg as Servant girl

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time.

Carmen

1984

7.4

♡ 7

Francesco Rosi Director

Carmen Vargas as Carmen's Friend

Aurora Vargas as Carmen's Friend

Concha Vargas as Carmen's Friend

Maria Campano as Manuelita

A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful factory worker (Carmen), but she does not reciprocate his feelings.

Callas Forever

2002

6.4

♡ 1

40%

Franco Zeffirelli Director

Manuel de Blas as Esteban Gomez

Jeremy Irons as Larry Kelly

Gabriel Garko as Marco / Don Jose

Fanny Ardant as Maria Callas

Aging opera singer Maria Callas tries to make a comeback by performing in a production of Bizet's "Carmen."

Einstein on the Beach

2014

7.7

♡ 5

contemporary classical music

albert einstein

minimalism

Music

Don Kent Director

Jasper Newell as Boy

Helga Davis as Featured Performer

Kate Moran as Featured Performer

Philip Glass as Self

This seminal work of avant-garde opera from composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson arrives full-circle, coming to France, the site of its 1976 Avignon Festival world premiere, at the tail end of this 2014 revival tour for a landmark Theâtre du Châtelet production and a first ever filming by award-winning arts filmmaker Don Kent. Eschewing conventional narrative, the opera revolves loosely around pacifist Einstein’s relationship to the creation of the atomic bomb.

Lucia

1998

7.1

♡ 4

44%

Don Boyd Director

Sarah Prichard as Assistant stage manager

F. Ran Shiva Akal as Designer

William Boyde as Lord Ravenswood

Rosie Hall as Mrs Hickox

Members of an opera company performing Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" find their lives parallel those of the characters.

Love Opera

2020

7.8

♡ 2

Documentary

Liselle Mei Director

Love Opera provides an inside look at Brisbane’s world-class Lisa Gasteen National Opera Program as it prepares a production of Carmen with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Nestled inside Griffith University on Brisbane’s South Bank, the Lisa Gasteen National Opera Program is the brainchild of its eponymous leader, whose singular qualities as an opera singer have taken her from The Met to Covent Garden and all across Europe.

Gloriana

2018

8.0

♡ 1

Music

Stéphane Lebard Director

James Creswell as A Blind Ballad-Singer

Àlex Sanmartí as The City Crier

Scott Wilde as The Recorder of Norwhich

Sam Furness as The Spirit of the Masque

Performed at Madrid's historic Teatro Real in 2018, Ivor Bolton conducts Benjamin Britten's opera based on Lytton Strachey's 1928 Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History. In her repeated clashes with the Earl of Essex-a longtime favorite of the queen who was ultimately put to death for treason-Elizabeth I is depicted as flawed and vain, human and sympathetic.

Puccini: La Bohème

2017

Italian

7.9

♡ 2

Music

François Roussillon Director

Marc Labonnette as Alcindoro

Roberto Tagliavini as Colline

Artur Rucinski as Marcello

Aida Garifullina as Musetta

No one better described the half-starved, struggling artists than Murger in his Scènes de la Vie de Bohème: artists ready to burn a manuscript to try to keep warm yet,in an era of triumphant bourgeois materialism, dreaming of another existence. Taking up these scenes of Bohemian life, Puccini offers us a heart-breaking love story and some of the most beautiful music in the history of opera in the story of the poet Rodolfo and fragile Mimi. The staging of this new production has been entrusted to Claus Guth who sets the drama in a future devoid of hope in which love and art become the sole means of transcendence.

Le Coq d'or

♡ 1

François Roussillon Director

Orchestre et Choeurs de l'Opéra national de Lyon as Choeurs / Themselves - Orchestre

Stéphane Arestan-Orré as Danseurs

Daniele Rustioni as Self - Direction musicale

Barrie Kosky as Self - Mise en scène

Pushkin folk tale as comedic opera whose sultry elements expand an Oriental influence. Korsakov portrays the story of Tsar Nicholas II, punished for his cowardice and despotism, using satire to condemn Russia's autocratic ruler.

Toscanini in His Own Words

2009

6.6

♡ 1

Larry Weinstein Director

Barry Jackson as Arturo Toscanini

Arturo Toscanini as Self

Joseph Long as Walter Toscanini

Michael Brandon as Wilfrid Pelletier

This film is a docufiction on the great Toscanini directed by well-known filmmaker Larry Weinstein; who pushes the boundaries of conventional documentary storytelling by borrowing tools from fiction films; including dramatic reconstructions and historical cinematic stylings.

The Phantom of the Opera

1925

7.5

♡ 13

90%

84%

based on novel or book

Lon Chaney Director

Virginia Pearson as Carlotta / Carlotta's Mother

Ethel Broadhurst as Frightened Ballerina

Bruce Covington as M. Moncharmin

Norman Kerry as Vicomte Raoul de Chagny

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.

Moonstruck

1987

7.2

♡ 56

90%

Norman Jewison Director

Robin Bartlett as Barbara

John Christopher Jones as Lowell

Louis Guss as Raymond Cappomaggi

Nicolas Cage as Ronny Cammareri

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn't love him. When she meets his estranged younger brother Ronny, an emotional and passionate man, she finds herself drawn to him. She tries to resist, but Ronny, who blames his brother for the loss of his hand, has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls for Ronny, she learns that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.

Attila

2001

6.6

♡ 6

67%

Dick Lowry Director

Gerard Butler as Attila the Hun 2 episodes, 2001

Isla Fisher as Cerca unknown episodes

Alice Krige as Placida 2 episodes, 2001

Tim Curry as Theodosius 2 episodes, 2001

A vengeful beauty foils the plans of the bloodthirsty Hun warrior to conquer Rome.

Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!

1966

7.9

♡ 17

94%

Gérard Oury Director

Marie Dubois as Juliette

Helmuth Schneider as L'officier allemand dans le train

Claudio Brook as Peter Cunningham

Louis de Funès as Stanislas Lefort

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.

Celeste

2018

5.6

♡ 2

55%

Ben Hackworth Director

Radha Mitchell as Celeste

Nadine Garner as Grace

Odessa Young as Rita

Kai Lewins as Young Jack

Celeste is a renowned opera diva who retired early for the man she loved to live on a crumbling and beautiful estate in the heart of a rainforest in Far North Queensland. Ten years after the tragic death of her husband, Mateos, in a boating accident, Celeste is set to return to the stage for her final performance. Her husband’s son Jack, still haunted by the past, arrives amidst the preparations for the performance and finds Celeste is as he remembered – beautiful, intoxicating and dangerous. Celeste wants Jack to stay at the estate, but needs him to perform one last request.

Doctor Atomic

6.4

Peter Sellars Director

Eric Owens as General Leslie Grove

Gerald Finley as J. Robert Oppenheimer

Jessica Rivera as Kitty Oppenheimer

Ellen Rabiner as Pasqualita

The European premiere of the opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars, in a co-production of the San Francisco Opera (where the work premiered), the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and De Nederlandse Opera. The plot focuses on the great stress and anxiety experienced by those at Los Alamos while the test of the first atomic bomb (the "Trinity" test) was being prepared.

Marguerite

2015

6.9

♡ 8

95%

73%