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| Sunshine [2000] | ![Sunshine [2000]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410QCGAGTHL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Istvan Szabo
Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Ehle, Deborah Kara Unger
Studio: Momentum Pictures
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (13 reviews)
Sales Rank: 4237
Format: Anamorphic, Pal, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: DVD
Running Time: 173 minutes
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5060021171122
ASIN: B000056IFN
Release Date: February 19, 2001
Theatrical Release Date: January 27, 2000
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Amazon.co.uk Review
This sprawling family saga follows a Hungarian-Jewish family across three generations, and stars Ralph Fiennes as the father, the son, and the grandson in three distinctly different roles. As a Europudding vehicle for Fiennes and a top-drawer cast (including Jennifer Ehle, Rachel Weisz, Deborah Unger, Miriam Margolyes and William Hurt), ISunshine/I delivers on all fronts: there's glossy melodrama, high-moral seriousness as history wears the family down like the wind, and leitmotifs--the family elixir called "Sunshine" that founds their fortune, semi-incestuous adulterous liaisons, photographs and faces--that thread the epic three-hour narrative together. Fiennes begins as a stiff Budapest lawyer-cum-officer and judge during the First World War, torn when anti-Semitism raises its head. His son is a champion fencer who denounces the family faith to attain advancement but ends up in the Nazi-run labour camps all the same. The last in the line, a policeman this time, must navigate the Stalinist forces of repression and endures through the 1956 uprising to take back the family name and faith. And yet as a film by director Istvan Szabo (IColonel Redl/I, IMephisto/I), it's a bit of a soggy disappointment lacking the bile and spit and visual inventiveness that makes the best of his other works so outstanding. Perhaps the fact that Szabo is directing an all-English speaking cast is the problem, leaving the film feeling strangely old-fashioned and paradoxically lacking a sense of place (despite much of it being filmed in Hungary itself). Although there are some charged emotional beats throughout, pretty costumes, and lots of entertainingly tasteful bonking sequences, the fencing sequences in particular become tooth-pullingly tedious and the whole thing seems to drag, especially as it takes itself so seriously. --ILeslie Felperin/I
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 Marvellous... December 3, 2008
Just want to add my 10c...br /I have a weakness for Ralph Fiennes - I think he is a very good actor!br /This epic movie spellbound me!br /br /One I'll watch repeatedly.br /br /If you too like Ralph Fiennes, you should watch 'The English Patient' - a marvellous movie too...
Hungarian Suicide Song May 23, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Although I do have a few reservations about small aspects of this film, overall it is beautifully made and the story well-told through the generations of the Sonnenschein family of Jews, who own a herbal tonic factory and change their names (some of them) to fit in with, first, the encroachingly bourgeois Empire of Austria-Hungary, later, the bloody revolutionary Marxist-Leninist government of Bela Kun, the nationalist government of Admiral Horthy and, finally, the post-WW2 socialist (Communist Party) government installed by Stalin and his successors.br /br /The filming of the beautiful and grandiose buildings of Budapest and elsewhere is breathtaking and a fitting setting for the fencing school and other favourite places of those who would, before 1918, have been termed "K und K" ("Kaiserliche und Konigliche" or "Royal and Imperial"). br /br /The attempts by the Jewish family to fit in with the Hungarian host population are not completely successful in the 1930's and 1940's climate and one, the Olympic fencer, is not only detained in a camp but turned into an icicle, which would have been the only really distressing part of the film were it not for the vicious and vulgar (and totally ungentlemanly) method shown of drunken men hunting with shotguns and rifles turned indiscriminately on herds of deer (pre-1914) and wild boar (post-1945). Terrible. I hope they don't do that these days.br /br /Naturally, one's mind turns to the interesting speculation of why, when Jews were only a smallish part of the whole Hungarian population in 1940, this film, like so many, specifically follows the fate of a Jewish family and not a Hungarian one proper...Hungarians also suffered in WW2, not least when Budapest was conquered (or as the film wrongly terms it, "liberated") by Soviet forces, after much of the city was destroyed by shellfire and many of its women (like those of Vienna and Berlin) were raped. I suppose Hungarians don't own film companies and cinemas around the world.br /br /I thought Fiennes did a great job in being all three generations of Sonnenscheins/Sors. One of his best, to my way of thinking.br /br /I feared that this film would be slow and dull. It is not.
 Long stark epic and unentertaining. September 27, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a good film if you are interested in Hungarian history. There is not what you could call a plot, just a story of 3 or 4 generations of one family and how they all faced difficulty choosing between their own morals and passions, and the zeitgeist of that era. I think you would really need to know a bit about European history to understand what is happening, as the story lasts 100 years. Some parts, particularly the 2 world wars are dealt with so quickly you could easily miss them and the marriages and affairs are likewise hurried and unexplored. There is no doubt that Hungary went through horrible times but, given the pace of the film and the severity of the characters, I couldn't muster much care or sympathy for the outcome. The cast and performances are mostly excellent, as are settings, costume feeling of authenticity. I was glad I managed to sit through the entire 2 and 3/4 hours and found it interesting, in a documentary way, but I couldn't recommend this as entertaining to anyone.br /
A brilliant, touching movie! May 8, 2006
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
This movie is simply brilliant!br /br /It tells the story of a Hungarian Jewish family through 3 generations. We get to see the history of the 20th century, the 2nd world war, how it aaffected Hungary through a family's life. And though everything changes around the Sonnenschein (later Sors) family: regimes, friends, people they can trust, etc... there is still a constancy: the bloodline, the relations, the family bond, the love.br /br /It is such a moving an overwhelming movie, simply brilliant.br /br /The cast is excellent! From Jennifer Ehle to Rachel Weisz, everybody is perfect! And for Ralph Fiennes who plays the 3 main characters (the grandfather, the father and the son), I can't find the words. He plays them so masterfully, that despite the physical ressemblance, you can see that they are 3 totally different persons.br /br /Yes, of course it is dark because it deals with deportation, Jewish camps, but it is that kind of film that after seeing it, you will be thinking about it for days. I have first seen it when I was 14, and ever since it has been one of my favorite movies, not only because the acting is excellent, or the photography breathtaking, but because it gives a whole round story with such emotional depth and moral lessons that the catharsis is guaranteed.br /br /A wonderful movie, you absolutely have to check out if you haven't seen it yet! br /
 epic sunshine January 10, 2006
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
this film is a rather long but very fine portrayal of a hungarian jewish family whose fate is constantly altered over the generations by the political swings in their country. wether it's the communists or the facists in power, someone in the family is supporting the wrong team. fiennes is superb in this film and it's a good thing as really is at the heart of this story as he plays several members of this family whose attempts to assimilate affect their future generation more than they consider. don't be put off, this is not a film of doom and gloom, it's rather subtle and raises interressting questions about nationalism and loyalty, tradition and another dissfuntional family
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