Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (DVD, 2003) 
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (DVD, 2003)

 
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (DVD, 2003)

Leading Role: Jacques Brel
Director: Denis Heroux
Rating: Rated PG
Release Date: Nov 2003
Format: DVD
UPC: 738329029524
Product ID: EPID6478274
Description: This experimental musical revue combines the songwriting talents of the renowned Belgian-born Jacques Brel with the distinct stylistic sense of 1970s film. Brel's songs deal, movingly so, with topics as vast as love, death, and war. Brin...
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Movie Description
This experimental musical revue combines the songwriting talents of the renowned Belgian-born Jacques Brel with the distinct stylistic sense of 1970s film. Brel's songs deal, movingly so, with topics as vast as love, death, and war. Bringing them to life seems a challenge, but one met by director Denis Heroux. Using tools as unexpected as puppets and extensive location shooting, Heroux places Brel's songs in a unique context -- one that frees them from theatrical constraints. Mort Shuman (who wrote songs for The Drifters and Elvis Presley) converts the songs into beautiful English-language versions, but does not lose the essence intended by Brel. In an age where the classic troubadour seems to have vanished, JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS reminds one of the need for singers to translate universal emotion into song.

Credits
Writer:Eric Blau, Mort Shuman
Cast:Paul Marshall

Notes
DVD Features:

Region [unknown]
Keep Case
Anamorphic Letterboxed Widescreen - 1.85
Additional Release Material:
   Interview - 1. Edie Landau - Executive in Charge, The American Film Theatre
   Featurette - 1. "Ely Landau: In Front of the Camera -- AFT Promotional Reel - 1974"
   Theatrical Trailer
Text/Photo Galleries:
   Essay - 1. "Jacques Brel and JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS" by Michael Feingold, Chief Theater Critic, THE VILLAGE VOICE
   AFT Cinebill for JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS
   Trailer Gallery - Complete List of AFT Films
   AFT Scrapbook

Editorial Reviews
"[T]his 1974 movie is masterful."
Uncut - Rob Chapman (05/01/2005)

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