Product Description

Movie DVD

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11758 in DVD
• Brand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
• Released on: 2004-08-24
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, Surround Sound, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 98 minutes

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Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient) made her film debut swapping spit with Prince in this vanity piece directed by the rock legend himself. Prince plays a self-styled gigolo and musician in the south of France, and unlike his interesting grimness in Purple Rain, his character's affect is like one big, walking smirk here. Shot in black and white, the film is handsome enough to look upon for awhile. But even for people who admire Prince for his prodigious musical talents, the Song of Myself stuff in the movie is overwhelming. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

Prince in Valentino mode!
I shouldn't like this movie, but I kind of do. It's a total vanity project for Prince, but it's charming and funny so I enjoy watching it. Prince plays Christopher, a gigolo who plays piano in the French Riviera. He sets his sights on a rich heiress, and then finds himself falling in love. Meanwhile the father does not approve, and wants him hurt or dead. The movie is photographed extremely well by a legendary lensman called Michael Ballhaus. It looks phenomenal! And Kristin Scott Thomas seems to breathe some real life and class to her role as Mary. Jerome Benton is just fun to watch as he goofs on everyone. And Prince is Prince - mysterious and fully decked out in stack heels and full make-up.

The DVD is nice. It includes all the videos, and a trailer. But the real treat is seeing it in widescreen after all these years. Filmed on location in Nice, France ... mmmmm! South of France.

Hits include "Kiss" and "Girls & Boys". Some of Prince's most exotic and rythmic music.

Once upon a time in a land called "Fantasy"
This is not nearly as good as the Purple Rain and Sign o' the Times movies... however, if you are a child of the 80's / hardcore Prince fan, then you already love every corny / self-indulgent second of Under the Cherry Moon. This is Prince at the height of his post Purple Rain out-of-control narcissism and that's what makes it so much fun! Cryptic in-jokes and costume changes run wild to the beat of Prince and the Revolution's quirky funk-pop. The movie isn't given any special treatment in it's transfer to DVD. No 5.1, no commentaries of any kind but the inclusion of the music videos for the songs Mountains, Kiss, Girls & Boys and Anotherloverholenyohead is a nice touch. I wish they would've added the live performance of Prince and the Revolution from the MTV Under the Cherry Moon premiere at Sheridan, Wyoming but I guess that will have to wait for the Under the Cherry Moon: Special Edition. STOP LAUGHING! IT COULD HAPPEN!

PURPLE PAIN
This is basically a love story: the story of a man's love for himself. Some people may say that this film is an "over-the-top parody" but, when you put it in the context of Prince's other works, you have to admit this guy really adores himself. This movie is so bad on so many different levels that it's a candidate for the So Bad It's Good list.

One thing that kept cracking me up was Prince's choice of wardrobe. In one scene, he'd wear platform heels and a veil and then in the next he'd show up looking like TV's "Maude." Either way, watching the rich European women all melt for him was hilarious. Imagine watching one of those bad Elvis Presley movies except imagine Elvis walking through the movie wearing his glittering Vegas jumpsuits--and no one notices! It's almost that bad.

By the time CHERRY MOON reaches its climax, you're actually cheering for the bad guys (much the same way I ended up rooting for the National Guard at the end of the Billy Jack sequels). The only sympathy I end up having is for Kristin Scott Thomas since this is her feature film debut. It's okay, Kristin: lots of women have horrible memories of their first time....