Product Description

Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 03/16/2004 Run time: 101 minutes Rating: Pg13

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #51625 in DVD
• Brand: Lions Gate
• Released on: 2004-03-16
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 101 minutes

Customer Reviews

Do You Speak Czech?
Artisan strikes again. Two words - NO SUBTITLES! This is one of 'thee' best indie films ever made and Sally Kirkland absolutely deserved the Oscar nomination that she received for her portrayal of Anna, a one-time movie star in her native country. The character is Czechoslovakian and the story is set up through her meeting with another Czech citizen, Paulina Porizkova who speak to one another in Czech. A dialogue that no American will understand because THERE ARE NO SUBTITLES!

How does this studio stay in business? WHY does this studio stay in business? Not because of their track record for excellence.

This studio keeps releasing excellent films in BOTCHED conditions that deserves so much better! Anna (a 5 star film) needs to be re-released WITH THE MISSING SUBTITLES by a studio that cares about the product that they are selling AND the consumer to whom they are selling to. Artisan is not that studio.

The weight of the years!
Sally Kirkland gave the best role of her career with this haunting portrait of a middle aged actress who decides to cast in USA after being a very well known actress in her birth country.

The struggling atmosphere and the winds of change experimented by Anna make the dramatic frame to receive her parent. You will realize how fast and temporal can result the affective ties when the greed and the ambition sharp the spirit.

The profound sensation of loneliness due the age in the acting world is the central focus of this intelligent and sensitive film. What can be the pretext to ignore the talent and experience of an actress whose only sin has been to surpass the forties? The acquired experience weighs less than nothing when the first wrinkles delineate the feminine face. It would seem that Faustian stigma has survived through the years and has embodied in the common sense of many people.

A mature film who could become in a vital reference point and late discussion after you watch this picture.

SK
Sally Kirkland I was always attracted to and liked her acting. But like all her films that she gets a starring role. She will take all advantage of it. I get the feeling that she is I am woman hear me roar type. and thats exactly why she ended up doing alot of B films like a Shannon Tweed who I used to really like. The movie is defintely not American. I find the european film makers can be aloof in their ideas. Like they are missing a few screws. Even the good ones you watchin a Fellini film and your like what the ?