What did you think?
For all the viewers in the UK, lets us in the states know what you thought of it after it airs in April.:)
shareoh, and please don't forget us Canadians, too....okay!! We're RA fans here too!!
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i will ask my dealer to tape it!;)
i am watching it because of amanda root...thanks god that its possible to find her films on the net.;)
without him i would die here in vienna.LOL
the brits keep her hidden.;)
many of her films are released on dvd.
best wishes!!!
Episode One
I really enjoyed this
Its very beautiful to look at the photography was wonderful. The script has had some critics in the UK press but I found it was fine considering its a docu/drama so there will be certain amount of exposition and also it was on early evening in the UK so it has to address the fact that the audience will be varied. I know very little about The Impressionists or the movement and I found it informed me without being too in depth.
The story revolves around Monet himself and starts with Old Monet (Julian Glover) telling his story to a journalist he recounts his meeting with Renoir and Bazille and their friendship. The cameraderie between the three came across so well and was extremely believable. There is a lot of humour in their scenes together. Manet and Degas are also covered to a lesser extent. In particular with Manet, this is where you get the parts about the disapproval of The Salon about any work which veered from the accepted style.The story of the Olympia painting in particular.
It follows Monet as he meets Camille who becomes a model for him and eventually his wife and the difficulties in their relationship as his family disapprove and the effect this has on their financial situation.
The bits I enjoyed the most were the painting as the artists in locations and then seeing the finished pictures. The pictures have their titles and artist flash up on the screen above them for a couple of seconds. It was wonderful to see how Monet, Renoir and Bazille could look at the same scene then produce different pictures of the same subject depending on their individual style and what they saw.
The story is told in flashback with some narration from Old Monet.
All the actors were excellent. James Lance as Bazille made you care for Bazille so much that you care when he is killed in the war. But all are wonderful. I'm a Richard Armitage fan, but i was immersed in the acting so much that I thought of him as Monet not as Ooh look that's Richard playing Monet. The same can be said for the other characters too.
If you get the chance to see it I do recommend it.
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I like Monet a lot and I can´t wait to see The impressionist. I love Émile Zola, the journalist and writer. He was a close friend of Monet (of Cézanne, Manet and other impressionist painters too). He supported Monet whenever he needed it and paid his debts. Did he appear?
shareI don't think he appeared in the first one, but they did read out a favourable review of Monet's work by Zola.
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I absoloutely adored it. It was beautiful and like another post said, it was amazing how the artists could look at the same scene and then paint equally gorgeous yet wonderfully different pictures.
Maybe I am a little biased, as a huge fan of Renoir's work, but I found the actor who played Renoir more than a little bit cute. Yummy.
But sexy actors aside, it was indeed brilliant.
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I disagree... I thought it was a diabolical dramatisation. The script and dialogue were tremendously, and insufferably, dire. The music was nausiating and sentimental.
Are people too lazy to watch an indepth documentary these days? I'm sick of these historical dramatisations, an amatuerish halfway house between serious documentary and proper filmmaking.
But the positive to this type of film-making would be that those who might not have even considered the subject, are now going off to find further details and information.
not every documentary should be terribly intense...it puts people off if they are only just getting interested. sometimes a gentle learning approach is still a learning one....
This docu-drama actually encouraged my 8 year old to find out who Bezille was, as she had only just studied a little about Monet at school. Even my 15 year old son, was intregued enough about the basic story to look forward to the second episode..and now the third...and this isn't a subject he would normally touch with a bargepole...
Yes, I guess you're right, and looking at my previous post I think I was a little harsh, and I have warmed to the series slightly. Also, I was perhaps guilty of looking at it only from my point of view as a former art student. If the series managed to get your 8 year old child interested, I guess it must be doing something right. But I still have a problem with the whole historical-docu-drama thing, because I think that when you mix them you just end up with a watered down version of all of them. This series isn't the best example of this technique either - there was a much better one about Krakatoa on the bbc the other night.
shareCurious one that, i didn't like the Krakatoa one...lol!! thought it was a little too technical, and didn't warm to the characters enough to care much. I was really upset when Bezille died in the impressionists..(Duh! silly I know!)I know the krakatoa story well, and have seen some good versions of the story that bring the reality of the situation into the livingroom..
We missed the first half of the last episode, about Cezanne, because they showed it half an hour earlier this week :-( (coming in to see him saying goodbye to his son)...We gave up, because we didn't know what was happening, and hope to catch a re-run..
how was this episode? as good as the rest? - i was very confused, as the boy didn't seem very old at all, but Cezanne clearly looked upset at the parting..
really hope its repeated somewhere soon, or out on DVD....anyone know??
It wasn't bad but the chocolate box muzak got on my nerves.
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I just watched the dvds this week and I loved it. It appears to have been "available" to US Public Television stations for broadcasting but did not appear as part of the national PBS lineup which seems strange as it was an extremely well-made film.
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