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VHS : The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea |
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304653395
Format: Color, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6304653395
Label: Video Treasures
Manufacturer: Video Treasures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Video Treasures
Release Date: October 21, 1997
Running Time: 105 minutes
Studio: Video Treasures
Sales Rank: 26819
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Quite possibly better known for a notorious Playboy magazine spread than for its own cinematic merits, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea is one of the weirder artifacts of the wide-open American cinema of the 1970s. The Japanese setting of Yukio Mishima's novel is transplanted to the English seaside, where an adolescent boy has fallen in with a group of pint-sized fascists (they call each other by numbers, not names). The gang's idea of exploring "the center of reality" is vivisecting a cat, a ritual rendered in dreamlike, repellent detail. Meanwhile, the boy's mother (Sarah Miles) takes up with an ocean-wandering American seaman (Kris Kristofferson), their gauzy nude scenes providing voyeuristic titillation for the peeping son and audience alike (hence Playboy's interest). The combination of Lord of the Flies with the soft-core stuff makes a very awkward match, and the insistent touch of director Lewis John Carlino, who went on to make The Great Santini, does not help. Carlino's montage of shipboard pistons and pumps churning as the sailor arrives in town is a particularly unfortunate foreshadowing of the sexual gymnastics to come. Kristofferson, looking somewhat zonked as he often did in the '70s, is nevertheless effectively cast, and Miles, after Ryan's Daughter and Lady Caroline Lamb, practically had a patent on the sexed-up English (or Irish) rose in movies. Their efforts can't disguise the silliness of the execution. Still, those kids are truly scary. --Robert Horton
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"The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea" was a shocking film when first released in 1976 because of its blend of sex and mystery-bred tension. The newly-released DVD is very high quality and the content--based on Yukio Mishima's novel--remains erotic and scary. The performances are very good, with Sarah Miles especially showing her strengths (and lots of other things). The film is polarizing; many will stop watching in the first 30 minutes, but most will find it captivating.
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Haunting, and utterly creepy oddity from the 70's, a time when film makers could finally begin to bring their personal artistic visions to the screen, without the fear of censorship. The subtle, romantic affair between the woman and the sailor, and the disturbing nature of her young son and his band of twisted friends, make for a jarring combination of light and darkness, innocence and evil. The seaside village is extremely beautiful and provides a fine backdrop to the tale. But after all I heard ... Read More
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There is much to like in this film. It's certainly stylish, has nice shots of the sea and the English countryside. The actors, Kristofferson and Miles were at the peak of their appeal, and yes, there are plenty of explicit love scenes. However there are a lot of problems, too. The Amazon reviewer does a good job of laying them out.
I found reading some of the reviews of Mishima's novel from which the film is made very useful. It makes much more sense in the context of Japanese culture. ... Read More
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UNCUT OR EDITED??
Someone please tell me the truth about this movie. I wanna know if its the original or EDITED version.
Thanks
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I purchased this wierd film today on 1/2 price from media play.
I thought it might be an interesting sea film, and it delivers on that point. The cinematography is gorgeous, but the cruelty overshadows it. Thank God for DVD. I was able to stop the scene, and go to the next, when they are about to "operate" on the cat. And I am putting this mildly!!! I would like to take those kids, and castrate them myself!!!!
The scene with them on the row boat is no better. This is where the Chief little brat ... Read More
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