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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Koch International
EAN: 0891514001184
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Cinema Epoch
Manufacturer: Cinema Epoch
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Cinema Epoch
Release Date: May 08, 2007
Running Time: 88 minutes
Sales Rank: 64391
Studio: Cinema Epoch
Theatrical Release Date: 1966-12
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Description:
This rarely seen classic is available for the first time on DVD! The Greek myth of Daphnis and Chloe is told through the tale of the sexual awakening of two adolescents in a Greek tribe.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Engaging !
Overall, a very well made movie. But the most fascinating aspect of this film--- which I believe indeviduals who give this film a bad review forget--- is that the film is based on an ancient Greek myth, and interpreted by modern Greeks. That is why I have given this film 5 stars; because from the music to the actors, the whole production is authentically Greek. And after all, that is the point of viewing foreign films! The erotic aspect... well, any boy who has gone through puberty should be able to understand the almost hapless.. I mean helpless state of the boy in the film. Truly the story of us all.
Rating:  - What a waste of time!
Watched this DVD with great interest having a bit of knowledge of the old story it was based on. I know it is an old movie and Greeks had a great pride in their conquests but for this movie, it's better with the Greeks left out of it and don't bother buying this movie. I would rate it as less than one star.
Rating: - Feminists and Animal Lovers, Beware!
This movie, I gathered, is a re-creation of some Greek myth (I would imagine a modern-day Venus and Apollo) and is typical of what transpires in a male domineering world: preying on women and cruelty to animals. This film is not for feminists and animal lovers, nor for those who are buffs for European films with good quality. (I would only recommend it to feminists if they, along with me, wish to view this film just so that they can give it an awful rating; the more of those, the better).
The transfer to DVD is less than good quality for one thing. It moves horribly slow, plus there is no plot. It merely focuses on the sexual frustrations of shepherds who, after a tedious walking trek with their animals, rest in a village where only women dwell; their husbands are gone fending for livelihood.
The main characters are two young pubescent shepherds (one blonde haired, the other dark) and an older one. The older one, despite a young woman's refusals, continues with sexual/romantic advances. Meanwhile, there is competition between the two young ones over a beautiful young girl about their age. As all parties meet, from there it's just continual preying with intermitant displays of merciless cruelty to animals-mostly birds but also one ram. I thought, what was the point?
Rating:  - an enigmatic, disturbing film
This film is a mixture of realism and myth. There are hints of Daphnis and Chloe, but this is not their story at all.
A naive and good young boy (played by a blonde boy of about eleven) travels with a group of sheepherders. At one of their stops, he wanders off and finds a mysterious young girl of about 13 or 14. He falls in love with her, but she plays hard to get and sets tasks for him to do in order to win her. At one point, she teases him wearing a loose garment off one shoulder. There are several shots in which her young breasts are visible, but the twilight is dim. At the end (spoiler coming), an older boy of his group sees the girl, throws her to the ground and rapes her. She screams and resists at first, then throws herself into it. The boy is totally disallusioned, and we see him walking off into the sea dragging the albatross that has been a bond between him and the girl throughout the movie.
That's really it. You make of it what you will, but few people will be able to watch this movie and not have strong mixed feelings of one kind or another.
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