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Requiem for Dominic

post #1 of 4
4/6/10 at 1:21am
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Has anyone seen this? It was released to VHS and Laserdisc in the early 90s. I happened upon a VHS copy, but I'm not even sure how to operate a VCR anymore. Actually, circumstances have conspired so that I won't be able to see it at the moment, which is a disappointment, I actually have a rare movie for once. And it's supposed to be good:

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"Requiem for Dominic" dramatizes the terrible physical, emotional and psychological toll that attends the civil chaos of such great moments in history. It's about the hangover that follows the victory celebrations, about the morning-after when nothing is as simple as it looked the night before.
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Mr. Mitterer and the other actors are all effective, as is the screenplay's fractured narrative style, which serves the facts of the film as well as their meaning.

Also enormously helpful is the way in which the remarkable material photographed during the initial Timisoara uprising is matched with new material made for the film. The film's visual authencity is stunning.

At its best, "Requiem for Dominic" suggests the moral complexity of a Graham Greene tale, coupled with the urgency of a Costa-Gavras film, though Costa-Gavras seldom deals in stories as seriously ambiguous.
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/revi...57C0A967958260

Enh, maybe the tape will display awful video quality, actually that's very likely. Or it will be a watchable and a candidate for a "Why isn't this even on DVD yet?" thread.
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post #2 of 4
4/6/10 at 6:14pm
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OK, the tape works. The video quality is only as shoddy as any regular video in this format. Anybody have a useful link on digitizing VHS tapes? I don't want to wear it down by watching the whole movie.
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post #3 of 4
4/7/10 at 5:16am
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It's not a masterpiece, but it's pretty good. Most similar to Paul Greengrass' "Bloody Sunday" and Costa-Gavras' "Z". The film explores moral ambiguity, and the ambiguity of truth, as it examines different perspectives on a supposed anti-revolutionary fighter in Romania, who may have killed over 80 people in support of the government. The movie began shooting only two weeks after the anti-Communist revolution there, and the movie seamlessly blends footage shot for the film, and actual footage of the events depicted. It's a bit cold in its storytelling (everything seems to be told at arms' length, there's no protagonist; one has the feeling the entire movie was cobbled together from found videotape of these events) and I think it's ultimately a minor work, though it does have some apparent historical value. The movie is also confusing at times, if one doesn't read up a bit on the background I briefly mentioned here...but ah, I'm a sucker for those revolutionary-themed movies about politics that feign documentarian realism. Yes. But actually, I think that's a genre unto itself, and this is one of the better ones.
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post #4 of 4
4/21/10 at 8:14pm
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Trailer!

http://video.tvguide.com/Requiem+FOR...&partnerid=OVG
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