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Scent of a Woman
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R (Restricted) :: Universal Studios ::
Released:
1998-04-29
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Rating:
4.5/5 (132 Reviews)
5/5
caaaalasic
by Nicholas Macdonald (mass.)
comonnn, this is al pacino were talking about here...move your mouse over to the right and click buy or add to cart ......noww
3/5
Great ending
by Richard Schulz
This movie on VHS was purchased for my parents which they loved and I do too. It is best known for his great roasting he gives at the end but there are other good moments as well
5/5
Scent of a Woman [HD DVD]
by David A. Havens
The quality of my purchase is excellent and I am very pleased to have bought this through Amazon. The delivery was speedy and efficient as well [truth be told I was very anxious to watch it and it exceeded my expectations]!
5/5
Squalor is in the heart, just like courage and love
by Jacques COULARDEAU (OLLIERGUES France)
This one is a masterpiece. First of all because Al Pacino cuts a character he is in no way close to being in real life. He plays a retired lieutenant-colonel which is nothing, but a blind one. His blindness is the symbol, and result, of both a heroic career and a sad end because he was passed over for general. This mixture of so many emotions and feelings and frustrations is marvelously conveyed by the actor. His tone, his behavior, his general stand, his unpredictable reactions, his decision to leave this world and his second decision to stay can be read in the way he speaks, the words he uses, the expressions his blind face carries, his attitudes toward other people, etc. He is a millionaire in emotions. But it is a masterpiece for so many other reasons that I am only going to quote a few. First it is a journey, the journey of a prep school teenager, a student on a scholarship mind you, from Oregon to Cambridge, Massachusetts, then to New York, a round trip with the colonel he is taking care of for the Thanksgiving long week end. This journey, and particularly the lap to New York and the subsequent events, are an initiation. The young chap is to learn what principles are in life and that you have to stand by them, especially if you are poor and fragile in body and social status: then be strong in soul and mind and spirit. Your ethics are your only asset and power in life. He also has to learn how to understand his colonel companion and feel when he has decided to send him buy cigars while he is putting an end to his life and the gun loaded with his bullets are an impressive key to the solitary tower of growing up with death in front of you. He saves that man with a crazy idea of a ride, for a blind man, to drive a Ferrari in the Bronx or somewhere under the Brooklyn Bridge, and with all the frills of such a ride including the cop who catches him speeding but does not realize he is talking to a blind man. But this film is also a film about the elite education these Ivy League prep schools provide the young men of today with to prepare them to be the leaders of tomorrow. There I will not hint too much at that side of the story. Let's say an act of vandalism which is a student prank and nothing more, leads the headmaster into menacing the two student witnesses (our poor one and a rich kid) with the worst punishment going as far as trying to buy the cooperation of the poor student. The final disciplinary hearing is absurd in its logic. The three culprits go through because there is no clear cut witness, the rich one, with his father, pretends he did not have his contacts on but gives the three names with a maybe, and the poor one, Charlie by the way, refuses point blank to be a fink, a stool pigeon. And there the intervention of his would-be-and-could-have-been-suicidee colonel saves the day. That you will have to find out by yourself. In many ways it is a lot stronger than the Dead Poets Society and the drama is avoided. It is better because it is the vision of a poor scholarship student and not the vision of one rich kid, in recent society and not in the 1920s or so. The point of view makes it a lot more powerful about society and courage, even if less dramatic as for the relations between the rich kid and his father. The loser all along is the headmaster who did not know how to recognize a prank and over-estimated it into an act of vandalism. Yes that kind of repressive attitude produces soul cripples and there is no prosthesis for that type of amputation.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID
5/5
the dance scene
by Angelyn Ray
The movie has been well reviewed by others. I shall add that the feature that compelled me to add it to my collection is the tango by Pacino and Gabrielle Anwar. That scene is something to watch over and over. It is poetry embodied, with music, in an elegant setting, with an appreciative movie audience that reflects the viewers' awe.
Scent of a Woman Summary
Hoping To Earn Extra Money Over The Thanksgiving Weekend, Charlie Simms Agrees To Look After Blind, Retired Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade. But Charlie Is In For Even More Surprises When Slade Takes Off For A Wild Weekend In New York City That Will Change The Lives Of Both Men Forever.
Hoo-ah! After seven Oscar nominations for his outstanding work in films such as
The Godfather
,
Serpico
, and
Dog Day Afternoon
, it's ironic that Al Pacino finally won the Oscar for his grandstanding lead performance in this 1992 crowd pleaser. As the blind, blunt, and ultimately benevolent retired Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, Pacino is both hammy and compelling, simultaneously subtle and grandly over-the-top when defending his new assistant and prep school student Charlie (Chris O'Donnell) at a disciplinary hearing. While the subplot involving Charlie's prep-school crisis plays like a sequel to
Dead Poets Society
, Pacino's adventurous escapades in New York City provide comic relief, rich character development, and a memorable supporting role for Gabrielle Anwar as the young woman who accepts the colonel's invitation to dance the tango.
Scent of a Woman
is a remake of the 1972 Italian film
Profumo di donna
. In addition to Pacino's award, the picture garnered Oscar nominations for director Martin Brest and for screenwriter Bo Goldman.
--Jeff Shannon
Scent of a Woman DVD Techincal Details
Cast:
Al Pacino
,
James Rebhorn
,
Gabrielle Anwar
,
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Director:
Martin Brest
Aspect Ratio:
1.85:1
Rated:
R (Restricted)
Running Time:
157 mins
UPC:
025192026027
Binding:
DVD
Studio:
Universal Studios
Release Date:
1998-04-29
Region Code:
1
Specs:
Closed-captioned, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language & Subtitles
English (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Published - Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround),
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