The Golden Bowl [Region 2] | ![The Golden Bowl [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21GNS3BXKNL._SL500_.jpg) | Director: James Ivory
Actors: Kate Beckinsale, James Fox, Anjelica Huston, Nick Nolte, Jeremy Northam
Category: DVD
Buy Used: $35.06
as of 3/18/2010 04:59 EDT details
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Rating:  43 reviews
Format: PAL
Languages: German (Original Language), English (Original Language), German (Subtitled), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 0332699
EAN: 4030521326996
ASIN: B000075AS5
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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Based on the Henry James novel, The Golden Bowl earns a regal place in the long line of lavish Ismail Merchant and James Ivory productions casting spectacular mise en scène in the lead role. The crumbling Italian palazzo that opens the film and the magnificent English country houses that encase the unfolding drama play, as always, an intrinsic part in the ruptured psyche of whatever gentry Merchant and Ivory have elected to pursue. In this case, divided attention is paid to erstwhile glories and turn-of-the-century ambitions. Impoverished Italian prince Amerigo (Jeremy Northam) is to marry heiress Maggie Verver (Kate Beckinsale), school friend of Charlotte (Uma Thurman), who in turn weds American industrialist and art collector Adam Verver (Nick Nolte), Maggie's father. Amerigo and Charlotte, having previously been lovers, are helpless to resist an adulterous affair. A study of life's covetous designs failing to imitate the perceived perfections of art, The Golden Bowl is likewise flawed but alluring. --Fionn Meade
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 I've watched this movie more than a dozen times. February 17, 2010
Cleo
This movie is so easy to rewatch. The dialogue is great, the people and the clothes are perfect looking but best of all, those Americans never even turned a hair taking down those Europeans. It's a soap opera.
Great movie, great price! April 1, 2009
Mikhael S. (Fairbanks, Ak United States)
My order made it all the way to Alaska in just a few days! Thank you so much for the quality service!
 Unsatisfying, horrible casting and acting, don't just give MI a pass September 5, 2008
AeroEngineer (Los Angeles, CA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have to agree with the negative reviewers here, I have not read the book but books are always better than movies period. I hate these english actors that are cast as Americans, Beckinsale and Bale are the two prime examples but there are many more.
The acting was universally bad here as well, Nolte seems very wooden in particular but Beckinsale is not far behind, the only decent acting was by Uma Thurman.
This felt like an incomplete study throughout, by far the worst MI movie I've seen. MI should stick with the English Victorian/Edwardian periods that is it's forte and leave everything else to those who would know better. I'm glad this was a rental for me, not worth more than that.
 'The Golden Bowl" December 24, 2007
Valerie Schreijer (San Francisco Bay Area)
Look deeply into this movie as you watch it. There's a very important message in it. It still applies today. We have to be careful with other people's lives. When you really love someone, whether it be a parent, child or spouse, we would go to great, personal, lengths, to spare them the pain of the truth.
 Avoid this one September 9, 2007
M. Magie (Seattle)
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
A warning, to all who enjoy fine movies, and especially to anyone who reads Henry James with pleasure: this movie is a horror, badly written, dismally acted (as if by teenage amateurs), melodramatic and superficial and vulgar, at times even cartoonish in the famous Merchant Ivory settings. James's psychological penetration is difficult to capture in a film, but an infinitely superior job was done 30 years ago in the BBC version with Cyril Cusack, unfortunately only available now on used VCR -- a performance too quiet for today's clamorous market, but quite superb.
As for this one, centered on the clumsy inept performances of Beckinsale and Thurman, unless you can see it as a very clever satiric send-up of its own genre and of American wealth and "culture", the only reason to watch it is to see just how bad an ambitious and expensive film can be. If you haven't that perverse interest, avoid it.
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