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 enlarge | Director: Gillies Mackinnon
Actors: Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, Stuart Bunce, Tanya Allen
Studio: Live/Artisan
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 26664
Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
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Running Time: 96 minutes
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MPN: 13953
UPC: 012236139539
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Release Date: April 22, 2003
Theatrical Release Date: August 14, 1998
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 "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" October 16, 2007
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
I chose the title for this review from the famous poem by Wilfred Owen, because this film is poetry in itself. It's portrayal of the lives of the patients at Craig Lockhart hospital is excellent, and the characters are all strong. As Siegfried Sassoon assists Wilfred Owen in pursuing his natural talent for poetry to use it to write about the war, the audience follows the stories of Dr. Rivers, a psychiatrist doing his best to help the shell-shocked soldiers through traditional counselling methods whilst new, more animalistic treatments are developing in London, and Billy Prior, an officer attempting to overcome his optional muteness. As the lives of these different characters entwine with each other the audience can really share in the emotions of the men, and I believe this film does a brilliant job of bringing us closer to understanding what a significant impact this war had on people's lives and their mental stability.br /It's beautifully shot and well acted with a haunting score.br /It's a little known film, but it is very worth watching for its depiction of a different slant to the First World War, and is a strong tribute to the masterful work of Sassoon and Owen, as it gives us an understanding of how the events of the war influenced their pens in writing some of the best poetry ever written.
 A good film that should have been a great one September 12, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Despite promising material - the relationship between World War One poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon and the pioneering work of psychiatrist Dr W.H.R. Rivers in dealing with shell-shocked soldiers at Craiglockhart Hospital in Scotland - and Pat Barker's fine source novel, Regeneration is something of a disappointment. It's not so much that it's bad, though it does have many problems, more that it's not great when it could and should have been. br /br /Gillies MacKinnon's direction is a big part of the problem, a victim of too much good taste and restraint and not terribly cinematic either, rarely venturing much beyond medium shots. The material needs attack and passion, but instead it feels like a well-staged piece that's too nervous about offending its potential audience's sensibilities to really go for the throat. The casting is problematic too: Jonathan Pryce is fine as the psychiatrist gradually assuming his patients maladies himself as he faces the irony of curing men so they can be sent back to possibly die at the front but Jonny Lee Miller remains unconvincing as the resentful working class officer Billy Prior, cutting far too contemporary a figure to convince in a period piece. However, the scenes between James Wilby and Stuart Bunce as Sassoon and Owen really take hold, and it's here that the film all too rarely finds its heart and soul. It's a film that stands up a lot better on a second viewing partially because of lower expectations, but it's much too polite to do its subject matter full justice.br /br /Artificial Eye's DVD is not a bad package - a good widescreen transfer with interviews with MacKinnon, Pryce and Barker and trailer.
A really engageing film of this genre.A well deserved 5 stars! March 4, 2007
3 out of 10 found this review helpful
The DVD of this film was loaned to me by a friend, knowing my kind of DVD is Ronin,Heat etc.but am I glad I bothered to watch it.The story is beautiful but very sad especially knowing that in reality Sassoon was killed so near to the end of the War- another fine performance from James Wilby.Stuart Bunce played Wilfred Owen a bit "camp" I thought-was Owen "gay"- I don't know? Jonny Lee Miller who I've seen many times before but never knew his name was convincing in his role and Jonathan Pryce, the man of many character parts was absolutely brilliant as the Psychiatrist who had many of his own problems but always put those of his charges first.Actors in some of the smaller roles, Millers Scottish girl-friend and Wilbys room sharer should not go without mention.All in all a very moving film which made be see these war poets and others from a very different perspective for the first time in my life!
A future classic November 26, 2005
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
In my Top Ten movies of all time, and a must see for anyone with an interest in the period. Not your typical war film in that it is more dialogue and drama driven than dramatic military action sequences, being mainly set in a pyschiatric hospital in Scotland with occasional flashbacks to the Western Front. I agree with other reviewers who pick out the portrayal of the central character Dr Rivers, the pyschologist who must try to treat or cure shell shock victims, as a highlight, although Owen and Sassoon are also well cast as sensitive and politically idealistic characters respectively. As with the books by Pat Barker (which the film is broadly based on), the story is fiction but utilises real characters and events. Look out for one of the great cringe-making scenes in movies as electro therapy is used on an unfortunate soldier to "cure" his muteness. A great story, poignant, and tells us about the human tragedy of the Great War without the need to show mass slaughter.
Wonderful and sensitive Film November 18, 2005
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have considered other reviews and in general agree with them. This is a powerful and moving picture which makes effort to display the horror, and arguably the futility, of the first world war. As a film alone it is precisely executed, with some fine british actors providing thoughtful and provoking performances. The first few seconds of this film sum up WW1 for me, with haunting music as the camera travels over a black mud field deep with the dead and dying - and then the delicate end where Owen tells of the loss of 'half of Europe's seed'. Do not miss this, it is a film that you wont forget.
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